Actually, I have everything in other partitions, so the / partition
should, in theory, not grow at all. I have /usr , /var , /home
in other partitions. Even /tmp is at /var/tmp..
Really odd.. -turgut
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> > 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
>
