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Filling up of root partition

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From: Michael HART
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:00
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I am using SunOs 4.1.3U1 on a Sparc 2.

I have been having some trouble with the system filling up the
disk partition which contains the root filesystem and the unix
kernal.  I don't know what is causing this or how to find out.

The best suggestion I have had is to use du - but on the "/"
directory du will list everything on the machine (except
files I don't have read access to) and will therefore not be of
much use since there are ~ 3600 files.

As well I have not found any core files in this area.

(all my log files should be in /var ?)

The df command reveals:
solar:mhart 66[~]$ df
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              10079    9298       0   102%    /
/dev/sd3a             203591  169896   13336    93%    /usr
/dev/sd3g            1050958  203012  742851    21%    /home
/dev/sd0e              27751     602   24374     2%    /tmp
/dev/sd0h             249895  200752   24154    89%    /usr/local
/dev/sd0g              46135    6373   35149    15%    /var
/dev/sd1a            1959757 1042513  721269    59%    /home/Data
/dev/sd1b            1959757  656337 1107445    37%    /home/mhart/X
solar:mhart 67[~]$ 

And the ls -al command reveals
solar:mhart 67[/]$ ls -al
total 7931
drwxr-xr-x 18 root         1024 Feb 19 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root         1024 Feb 19 12:44 ..
-rw-------  1 root          197 Apr 13  1993 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 root         2021 Jun  9  1993 .ax_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 root         6391 Jul 22  1994 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root         1182 Jun 30  1994 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root          214 Mar 30  1993 .cshrc
drwx------  2 root          512 May 18  1995 .elm
-rw-r--r--  1 root           20 Sep 28  1995 .forward
-rw-r--r--  1 root           50 Jun 23  1994 .inputrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root          146 Apr 20  1993 .login
-rw-r--r--  1 root          106 Jul  6  1994 .profile
-rw-r--r--  1 root           23 Aug 29  1994 .rhosts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root          512 Mar 29  1993 .wastebasket
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           10 Oct 20 12:01 Data -> /home/Data
drwx------  2 root          512 May 18  1995 Mail
-rw-r--r--  1 root         4288 Jun  3  1994 adduser
lrwxrwxrwx  1 howes          16 Apr 20  1993 asi -> /home/bender/asi
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root            7 Mar 29  1993 bin -> usr/bin
-r--r--r--  1 root       110352 Mar 29  1993 boot
drwxr-xr-x  2 root          512 Mar 29  1993 cdrom
drwxr-sr-x  2 bin         11264 Feb 19 12:45 dev
drwxr-sr-x 10 bin          2048 Mar  5 08:29 etc
drwxr-sr-x  4 root          512 Mar 29  1993 export
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1731894 Mar 29  1993 genvmunix
drwxrwxr-x 14 root          512 Nov 16 11:29 home
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root       248720 Mar 29  1993 kadb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root            7 Mar 29  1993 lib -> usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 root         8192 Mar 29  1993 lost+found
-rw-------  1 root         5533 Sep  5  1994 mbox
drwxr-sr-x  2 bin           512 Jul 24  1992 mnt
drwxr-sr-x  2 root          512 Mar 29  1993 pcfs
drwxr-xr-x  2 root          512 Apr  2  1993 sasuser
drwxr-sr-x  2 bin           512 Mar 29  1993 sbin
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           13 Mar 29  1993 sys -> ./usr/kvm/sys
drwxrwsrwt 13 root        14336 Apr  1 13:43 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 30 root         1024 Mar 30  1993 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 root          512 Jul  6  1994 var
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369644 Jan  5 09:38 vmunix
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369548 Mar 30  1993 vmunix.old0
-rw-r--r--  1 root      1741916 Oct 19 17:13 vmunix.old1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369644 Oct 27 12:55 vmunix.old2
solar:mhart 68[/]$ 


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+-------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Michael HART                  | "If you want a straight line take  |
| Dept of Professional Studies  |  only two points."                 |
| University Of New South Wales | "If reproducibility is a problem   |
| mhart@solar.profs.unsw.edu.au |  do the experiment only once."     |
+-------------------------------+------------------------------------+
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+-------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Michael HART                  | "If you want a straight line take  |
| Dept of Professional Studies  |  only two points."                 |
| University Of New South Wales | "If reproducibility is a problem   |
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From: mhart@solar.profs.unsw.edu.AU (Michael HART)
Subject: Filling up of root partition
Date: 1996/04/01
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