Really strange ....

[Net Llama!]

And did you run fsck on it recently?

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:

> 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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