Sorry, my bad. I meant head. Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 06:56, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-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-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
