Running this command will help you find your largest files. Might help find
the culprit:

sudo du / | sort -nr | top -20

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 02:08, nbl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> Since a few days my root partition is continuously filling up to 100%.
>
> I found no file that could account for such a disk usage and when I
> reboot the computer disk space come back to normal (~60% used) and
> fill up again in a few time.
>
> I ran this command :
> iotop -a --user root
>
> And I noticed two crazy processes :
>  357 be/4 root        372.00 K      4.59 G  ?unavailable?
> [flush-8:0]
>  360 be/3 root          0.00 B   1625.69 M  ?unavailable?  [jbd2/
> sda5-8]
>
> These two processes wrote several gigabytes in less than a half of an
> hour on the root partition.
>
> I use Ubuntu Lucid with latest kernel 2.6.32-34-generic, coming back
> to 2.6.32-33 didn't solve the problem. The root partition is formatted
> in ext4.
>
> Do somebody have an idea ?
>
> Thanks !
>
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