Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:13:35 -0400 From: Paul Murphy <paul.murphy@cogeco.ca> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, root@rithy4u.net Subject: Re: File system full Message-ID: <45360C5F.4090400@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061018014819.GA72686@gothmog.pc> References: <45357AF8.1020101@rithy4u.net> <20061018014819.GA72686@gothmog.pc>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" <root@rithy4u.net> wrote: >> Dear All, >> My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I >> have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files >> inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB >> worth of that partition. Any ideas? > > First of all, try to track down where all the space has gone, by > using `df' and `du' with the -x option. For example, you can get > a good idea of which places in your root filesystem are the top-10 > users of space with: > > # cd / > # du -xm . | sort -nr | head -10 > > If this doesn't show up a lot of stuff, then there's probably a > rogue process which has opened a file and then removed it, so > it's not directly visible by traversing the tree with `du', but > you can still look for it with: > > # fstat -f / | sort -k +8 > > After you get this sort of information, we can make more informed > suggestions about the best way to move forward :) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have been trying to track down a similar problem! Using the above method I think I have found 'natd' to be the culprit. Should 'natd' receive a signal when 'alias.log' rolls over? Restarting 'natd' seems to have releases some megabytes. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0642-0, 17/10/2006 Tested on: 18/10/2006 7:13:37 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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