Process consuming space

[Fernando Duran]

Hello Jose,

This article may help understanding what happened: http://finalcog.com/undelete-open-file-from-inode

You can use the "fuser" command to find what process is holding a file/partition. Also you can use "lsof"; from 'ps' get the process ids, pipe them (xargs) through lsof -p and |grep for the file name to get the process id to kill.

To find the biggest directories or files you can do something like:
$ du -mxS / | sort -n | tail -5
  or
$ du -a --max-depth=3 / | sort -n | awk '{ if($1 > 102400) print $1/1024 "MB" " " $2 }'

Finally, a system reboot will close the open file. 


Regards,

Fernando

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Fernando Duran
http://www.fduran.com


--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: [TLUG]: Process consuming space
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:09 PM
> Hi list,
> 
> I had a problem with a process consuming space today, seems
> like a user panic with probably some huge report and kill
> the app, but the underline process continue to run and it
> consume all of my data partition, I couldn't get to know
> which process was the culprit because they decided to reboot
> the app, is there any way to know how to check for a process
> consuming space or having a huge space allocation?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> Jose
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