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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:39:15 +0200
From:      "Doron Shmaryahu" <doron@home.crc.co.za>
To:        "J.M. Warenda" <warendaj@comcast.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I'm probably overlooking something really stupid but...
Message-ID:  <008b01c28b22$71cd3ce0$0801a8c0@dman>
References:  <008c01c28af0$fe072360$4500a8c0@lucifer>

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Hi.,

go to /var and type du -ks * it will report the size of each directory. From
there you can determine where the large files are sitting.

Kind Regards

Doron Shmaryahu
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.M. Warenda" <warendaj@comcast.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: I'm probably overlooking something really stupid but...


>     ...sometimes you need to just ask to see if you overlooked
> something obvious.
>
>     I'm running a FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE box as my natd gateway for my
> home LAN and lately it's been reporting that /var is full ... df
> reports it at 107% capacity but du doesn't reveal what's filling it up.
>
>     I had once had apache fill /var because of some trojan trying IIS
> attacks on my apache server, but I've since disabled Apache so, it's
> not that! Only other things running are ftpd, telnetd, and sshd ...
> plus ezbounce (so I can ident on EFNet from machines behind the
> gateway), natd, and xchat under X.
>
>     Any thoughts on what might be filling var?  I ran fsck -f and that
> didn't reveal anything.
>
> -John
>
>
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