Really strange ....

[Ben Duncan]

All are ext3  ....

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
>>My /var is filling up and will not come clean :
>>
>>
>>Ok, here is my uname -ran :
>>
>>Linux bns 2.6.10Version_01_2005 #1 Thu Jan 6 11:51:14
>>                CST 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
>>
>>/var/log/debug is filling up, with what seems to be related
>>    to some sort of keyboard / mouse error (they Work fine ) ..
>>
>>df -h reports :
>>root at bns:var > du -h --max-depth=1
>>16K     ./lost+found
>>22M     ./log
>>472K    ./man
>>96K     ./run
>>1.6M    ./tmp
>>8.0K    ./lock
>>4.0K    ./X11R6
>>8.2M    ./spool
>>19M     ./lib
>>6.7M    ./www
>>256K    ./cache
>>28K     ./named
>>16K     ./state
>>4.0K    ./empty
>>32K     ./yp
>>1.7M    ./swaret
>>4.0K    ./proftpd
>>60M     .
>>
>>df, on the other hand :
>>root at bns:var > df -h
>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/sda1             389M  182M  188M  50% /
>>/dev/sdb1             5.4G  3.3G  1.8G  66% /usr
>>/dev/sda5             4.4G  1.6G  2.6G  38% /opt
>>/dev/sdb2             3.0G  2.1G  780M  74% /home
>>/dev/sda6             2.1G  1.4G  577M  71% /export/misc
>>/dev/sdc1             4.5G  1.4G  2.9G  34% /export/usr1
>>/dev/sdc2             4.0G  1.6G  2.3G  40% /export/usr2
>>/dev/sdd1             4.5G  2.7G  1.6G  63% /export/usr3
>>/dev/sdd2             4.0G  2.4G  1.5G  62% /export/usr4
>>/dev/hda1             111G   85G   21G  81% /export/ide2
>>/dev/hdb1             111G   84G   22G  80% /export/ide1
>>/dev/sda3             583M  380M  173M  69% /var
>>
>>will du on /var says:root at bns:var > du -h --max-depth=1
>>16K     ./lost+found
>>22M     ./log
>>472K    ./man
>>96K     ./run
>>1.6M    ./tmp
>>8.0K    ./lock
>>4.0K    ./X11R6
>>8.2M    ./spool
>>19M     ./lib
>>6.7M    ./www
>>256K    ./cache
>>28K     ./named
>>16K     ./state
>>4.0K    ./empty
>>32K     ./yp
>>1.7M    ./swaret
>>4.0K    ./proftpd
>>60M     .
>>
>>This is with /var/log/debug deleted.
>>
>>To get them to agree, I have to go to singe user, unmount /var
>>then remount. Then they agree.
>>
>>When /var/ fills up and even AFTER I delete /var/log/debug,
>>they system STILL thinks /var is full and does the "wierd"
>>dance ....
>>
>>Any Ideas? Upgrade the kernel maybe ?
> 
> 
> Yes, upgrade the kernel, if for no other reason than to address the
> numerous stability & security issues with 2.6.10.
> 
> I'd also suggest running some kind of file system check on the
> /var/partition.  What kind of filesystem are you using?
> 

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