From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 10: 7:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F8B37B408 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f9QH7I642048; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:07:18 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Ceri Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what's on / that keeps filling up? Message-ID: <20011026100718.A40521@tao.thought.org> References: <200110260724.f9Q7OYE40463@tao.thought.org> <20011026100255.D8919@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20011026100255.D8919@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>; from ceri@techsupport.co.uk on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:02:55AM +0100 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:02:55AM +0100, Ceri wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:24:34AM -0700, Gary Kline said: > > > > > > Could it be that I got too ambitious with my /etc/newsyslog.conf > > log files? > > It could. > But we'll never know unless we see it :) > > > In recent days, my DNS server keeps overflowing > > its / slice. > > Where is your DNS server's idea of / ? > Are you sure it's the DNS server that's doing it, as you don't sound too > sure below. > > > I've checked /var, /tmp, /root, plus /, and can't > > find what's causing stuff to fill up. Right now, / is at 99% > > capacity. > > du is your friend. > What du turns up is inconclusive; my df / went from 99 to 100% in a few hours, and `find .... -ctime 1 ' also was unhelpful. What it was, evidently, was that over the past two months of uptime, too many domains were cached. ...After a reboot, df / is only 34%. thanks for your help, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message