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by shanghai sam

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Can't quite figure out why my /usr mount point keeps filling up. It is at 100% usage. I don't really have any running applications on this machine. In fact it is basically just our firewall box.

I delete files from /usr, and it does not seem to take away from the bytes used. I don't have any large core files and there is nothing in the lost+found directory. I don't think my system has been compromised either, but I'm not certain.

Thanks for any help or ideas you can provide.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Where are your firewall log files set to go to?
Just as a suggestion, you may be looking for large files filling the space but it could equally well be zillions of small log files?

Cheers,
Tim.

by cpfeiffe

You probably want to find out what directory under /usr is taking up most of the space. You can use

du -k /usr > file (where file is a text file you wish to output the results to)

This will tell you what files and directories are in /usr andhow much space each is taking up. You can quickly browse the resulting text file to find the large directories and then find the files in them. This will help you find out where your space is going and determine if you can delete any. It may justbe time to grow /usr or add another file system.

I hope this helps

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