Help! My disk is full!

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:45:52PM +0800, Huan Deng wrote:
>     The volume of direcory ~yxma is increasing more and more. It stops
>     when I killed the process. 
> 
>     Then cd ~yxma, du . | sort -nr | more 
> 
> 18430152        .

That's a fairly large work file.

> The current directory is very large. But actually there are only a few
> small files in this directory.What's the problem? 

The file may not be cataloged.  Try the following:

# lsof /home

This will tell which files are open on the volume and you can hopefully
track it down from there.

If you have a bad application that just wants to fill the disk, you may
need to look at enabling disk quotas.  This is documented in the Red Hat
manuals.  Set the disk quotas high enough that the users can get their
normal work done, but not so high that they fill the disk.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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