On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:00:09 -0700 William Morder <doctor_contendo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2018 19:42:36 Nick Koretsky wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:28:24 -0700 > > > > William Morder <doctor_contendo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > About a month ago, I had something like 2.2 gb free in my / (sda1) > > > > > partition; then it went down to 1.5, then to 1 gb, then to 800 mb, > > > > > 600, 400, 200, and now I am at about 165 mb, and sometimes it goes > > > > > down to 0. In all this time, I haven't installed anything new, or > > > > > done anything different. > > > > > > > > I may have missed that but it seems no one have asked it in the > > > > thread > > > > - did you reboot you system during this time or is it a continuous > > > > uptime? > > > > > > Yes, I did reboot. I probably was rebooting my system every few days, > > > just because my Firefox seems to be interfering with my network > > > connection. And while I was learning the differences in a Debian > > > system (in contrast to Ubuntu), I also rebooted constantly, because I > > > was constantly messing up my system. For the past few months, though, > > > my system has been fairly stable, and I haven't been downloading and > > > installing new packages. > > > > > > Right now the problems are: 1) my vanishing partition, 2) why Firefox > > > messes up my network connection, and 3) minor bugs. > > > > > > Nowadays I might go a week or two without rebooting, unless I end up > > > with no space left on my root partition. > > > > Well, i mean does reboot reclaim that lost space? You see one of a > > possible reason for a "vanished" space are open deleted files. If some > > daemon misbehave with cache or imporper log rotations, etc... > > It does reclaim some of the lost space, yes - hence one reason for > rebooting, when I run out of space - but there is still a creeping issue > of space disappearing in increments of a couple mb at a time. > Well, than you have two different issues at hand. Two deal with a space that is reclaimed by reboot, run (when some space already gone) lsof -nP +L1 and look for anything suspicious here. Also, if /tmp is on real disk (not tmpfs), it is also a primal suspect for a space that is reclaimed by reboot. For an issue with a long term lost space, the only thing i cab suggest it to setup a cron to run something like du -xcbd2 / > $(date +\%j%H) -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@xxxxxxxxx) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
