Re: Filled up the filesystem. How?

From: Dotan Cohen (dotancohen_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/08/05

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:58:38 +0300
To: Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>

    On 6/8/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com> wrote:
    >
    > Figure out what you consider a "bloated" file, then
    >
    > find / -size +nnn[c|k] -print
    >
    > For example, if you feel 200MB is bloated:
    >
    > find / -size +200000k -print
    >
    > will display all files 200MB (200,000kB) or larger.
    >
    > > I thought of waiting for FC4 and just rm'ing the whole drive (I
    > > managed to back up /home/whats_important_to_me onto a 256 XD card with
    > > a usb card reader), but we need the machine daily.
    > >
    > > Please, any other ideas about what to check, and what I can erase are
    > > seriously needed right about now. If someone I trust (the names
    > > Dalloz, Lynch and a few others come to mind) want to ssh in, I'll see
    > > if I can set up the daemon. Thanks all, I always appreciate your help.
    > > And your willingness to teach patiently.
    >
    > Have you checked to see if your machine is swapping? Use "free" and
    > see how much free memory you have. "vmstat 5" will also show you if
    > you're swapping.
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com -
    > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
    > - -
    > - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? -
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    >

    I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm
    thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this
    computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last
    2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions:

    1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up
    that quickly?
    2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But
    how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by
    date? I think the solution lies in that route.

    The output of free is:
    [root@localhost dotancohen]# free
                 total used free shared buffers cached
    Mem: 483304 473692 9612 0 19204 212356
    -/+ buffers/cache: 242132 241172
    Swap: 983032 236 982796

    And vmstat 5 is:
    [root@localhost dotancohen]# vmstat 5
    procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
     r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
     3 0 236 9532 19288 212420 0 0 8 28 189 15 28 47 25 0
     2 0 236 9388 19296 212424 0 0 0 18 1910 2644 53 47 0 0
     2 0 236 9412 19304 212432 0 0 0 16 1924 2769 50 50 0 0
     2 0 236 9404 19312 212436 0 0 0 9 1916 2799 49 51 0 0
     2 0 236 9404 19320 212444 0 0 0 8 1922 2769 49 51 0 0
     2 0 236 9404 19328 212448 0 0 0 8 1905 2800 49 51 0 0

    Dotan
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