Timeline for How to determine what process is eating up all available disk space?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:33 | history | edited | kjo | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 32 characters in body |
| May 22, 2017 at 21:19 | vote | accept | kjo | ||
| May 22, 2017 at 19:59 | answer | added | Rui F Ribeiro | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: Thanks again. Your idea lead me to the culprit process. I killed it, and now, both df and du show 487G (out of 880G). If you post your comment as an answer, I'll accept it. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:37 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: bingo, that command output ~800 lines. The entry in the COMMAND in most of the lines is server. A server process also shows up in iotop. I'll investigate further... Thanks! | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | deleted files only disappear after the process is stopped; they remain in use while that does not happen. what does it say? sudo lsof -nP | grep '(deleted)' | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: OK, I restarted syslog, but I see no difference in du's output, nor in the size of /var. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:21 | answer | added | mehlj | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:21 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: a deleted file that is growing? | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:21 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: sorry, I don't understand your point. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:20 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | You dealing with a deleted file, that is why du does not register it. The /var size, if syslog is the culprit, wont register it too. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: FWIW, /var is tiny (3.1G), and doesn't seem to be growing particularly fast. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | kjo | @RuiFRibeiro: thanks for the idea... I've never restarted syslog, need to look into that... | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:15 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | What happens if you restart syslog? | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:12 | history | asked | kjo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |