aha..using that tip i found a huge file. It turns out he had turned on some kind of bandwidth monitoring w/o turning on log rotation..:) I have killed the logging..<G> Thanks for the tip. Jim Wildman wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, William Warren wrote: > >> A friend's machine just had his / partition goto zero percent free. >> This is an ext3 partition. Not an hour ago he had over 5 gigs free on >> an 8 gig partition. Any ideas where to look? The logs don't show >> anything unusual. > > find / -size +10M | xargs ls -l > big.files > > Adjust as needed. start from / to catch log files, etc in the > 'wrong' place. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com > "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best > state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." > Thomas Paine > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/