SUMMARY: /usr slowly fills

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 09:34:57 EST


Thanks to Johan Brusche, Peter Stern, Tim Cutts, Terry Horsnell,
Howard Arnold, BL Venkatesh, Werner Rost, Marc Schlensog.

The quickest of the various approaches suggested:

touch marker
find /usr -name "*" -newer marker

gives a list which can be monitored to see what is growing. It
points to a culprit directory:

/usr/var/spool/mqueue

which has been filling up in fits and starts. I'll post a further
summary once I've worked out what is doing this.

Cheers
Derek



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