On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:01, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
> I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root
> partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no
> free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!)
> but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors
> decreasing!
>
> The machine has Mandrake 7.1 on it, and has 5 disks - 2 IDE, 3 SCSI.
> The SCSI disks are mounted to the root partition, like
> mount /dev/sda1 /scsi1
> mount /dev/sdb1 /scsi2
> mount /dev/sdc1 /scsi3
>
> Any ideas?
> Many thanks, -turgut
Just a thought, but a reboot usually clears /tmp files (can't remeber when
Mandrake started with that, I noticed it in 7.-point-something though).
If /tmp is mounted under root maybe something is writing there?
Another thought is have you got the mother of all logging happening
(webserver, squid, etc) and the cron job at startup is rotating it out
