Fedora 9 disk full problem

[M A Young]

On Sat, 24 May 2008, f f wrote:

> du said I have ~30gb in /var/log/httpd. now that was could have been 
> some log file... the problem is that i only installed the system 
> yesterday and just started apache for like 2-3 hours. anyway

It sounds like you have some apache configuration fault that is resulting 
in out of control logging. I suggest you examine the logs and work out 
what the root cause is.

> all ok for 1-2 hours, now again disk full, but du says its ok

du adds up the sizes of the files it can see. If you have deleted files 
that a process has open, they still take up space until that process is 
ended, but du won't see them. Probably it is also worth forcing an fsck of 
the file system, just to be on the safe side in case the problem is due to 
disk corruption (though this is probably unlikely).

 	Michael Young