I'd suggest that 'top' below be replaced by 'head', or it won't do anything special :)
Once you find the top files, 'fuser' will help you find the processes responsible. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 ! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
