Mystery of increasing disk usage
Jamie Penman-Smithson
jpenman.smithson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 10:43:13 PDT 2007
I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling
disk usage on a partition.
du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB:
$ du -shL /usr
5.9G /usr
However, df shows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1f 47G 43G 131M 100% /usr
[...]
It seems to be eating 3 MB roughly every 4-5 minutes. However,
repeated uses of du don't show any increased usage. It only appears in
df.
defiant:/usr$ du -cksmxL * | sort -rn
6042 total
3015 home
965 obj
777 local
770 jail
376 share
36 lib
32 X11R6
28 bin
19 libexec
15 sbin
15 include
1 tmp
1 ports
1 openssl
1 libdata
1 games
1 compat
My first thought is that the du binary is compromised, but I thought
that I may be missing something blindingly obvious.
Thanks,
--
-Jamie L. Penman-Smithson <jpenman.smithson at gmail.com>
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