Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:45:22 +0200 (DST) | From | Niels <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.0.30 losing HD space? |
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> I once had a rather funny problem on my computer at home. / is a small >>> partition that inadvertantly got filled while a crontab moved some >>> logfiles around. However, when I attempted to fix the problem by removing >>> the old log files, df / would give free disk space on / for only a few >>> seconds before it was filled up totally again! No process was holding >>> anything open, I'm sure of that. > Are you using process accounting? If something goes wrong with that, > /var/account/pacct grow at disk I/O speed until /var is filled. > Once restarting pacct helped, but another time I had to reboot (or to live > without pacct).
It was indeed that directory. however, after removing all files and stopping pacct space still wouldn't return, instead just kept filling up more and more...
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