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From: Pete Puma on 29 Jun 2010 14:34 My root partition keeps getting larger every day and while I'm not installing new software to account for this growth, I wonder what's causing it to balloon like this. The default sizing for the openSuse installation was a 20-gig partition. I expanded it to 32 gigs to keep the system from freezing and provide some room for temp files, etc. Running fine now, but today, I noticed it's over 21 gigs. Sound like a virus?
From: Vahis on 29 Jun 2010 14:48 On 2010-06-29, Pete Puma <pete(a)puma.org> wrote: > My root partition keeps getting larger every day and while I'm not > installing new software to account for this growth, I wonder what's causing > it to balloon like this. > > The default sizing for the openSuse installation was a 20-gig partition. I > expanded it to 32 gigs to keep the system from freezing and provide some > room for temp files, etc. Running fine now, but today, I noticed it's over > 21 gigs. > > Sound like a virus? I don't think so. Sounds like something is written to the logs a lot... Check your logs to find out what the reason is and fix it. This probably will give some indication: #tail -f /var/log/messages Vahis -- http://waxborg.servepics.com openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) 2.6.31.12-0.2-default 21:45pm up 17 days 6:17, 12 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.17
From: Ulick Magee on 29 Jun 2010 14:50 Pete Puma wrote: > My root partition keeps getting larger every day and while I'm not > installing new software to account for this growth, I wonder what's causing > it to balloon like this. > > The default sizing for the openSuse installation was a 20-gig partition. That's more than generous, provided /home is on a separate partition (which it is by default), most people would not use up 10GB for everything else. > I > expanded it to 32 gigs to keep the system from freezing and provide some > room for temp files, etc. Running fine now, but today, I noticed it's over > 21 gigs. > > Sound like a virus? Sounds like some logfile growing out of control. On a console, su to root and try this: find /var -mtime -1 -exec ls -ld {} \; This will show you all the files/directories modified in /var within the last 24 hours. You can repeat this for the other directories in / except for /home - but /var/log is probably the problem. -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org
From: mjt on 29 Jun 2010 15:02 On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:34:29 -0400 Pete Puma <pete(a)puma.org> wrote: > My root partition keeps getting larger every day and while I'm not > installing new software to account for this growth, I wonder what's causing > it to balloon like this. > > The default sizing for the openSuse installation was a 20-gig partition. I > expanded it to 32 gigs to keep the system from freezing and provide some > room for temp files, etc. Running fine now, but today, I noticed it's over > 21 gigs. > Sound like a virus? It's a possibility. You might consider getting the SystemRescueCd CD - it has ClamAV on it ... boot from the CD and run a scan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware#Anti-virus_applications Do you periodically clean up /temp and /var/tmp? Do you have loglevel set to a high level of reporting? Do you have Yast software management set to archive updated software packages? That can significantly increase disk usage. You should consider checking the entries in the System->Chron branch in /etc/sysconfig, such as MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP, CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP, and so on. -- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Bertrand Russell <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: mjt on 29 Jun 2010 15:22
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:02:35 -0500 mjt <myswtestYOURSHOES(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Do you periodically clean up /temp and /var/tmp? Of course, we all know I meant, "/tmp" :) -- She's genuinely bogus. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |