Rogue process??

[Clay Weber]

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 08:41:33 PM Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I did apt-get update this morning on a Raring system and found kernel
> updates for 3.8.0-21. After issuing apt-get upgrade, I got a bunch of
> errors, all of which end with "No space left on device".
> 
> 
> I installed the system on an 11Gb partition (with /home on a separate
> partition) and it initially took up about 5.5Gb. When I investigated the
> above error, / was 100% full with no available space. Further investigation
> showed that only all the directories added up to ~5.5Gb of files with the
> exception of /proc which is shown as 1.8Tb. Most of the sub-directies are 0
> size despite having files and subdirectories. Most important is the kcore
> file, listed as 1.8Tb.
> 
> 
> I've been using linux systems for many years and have never seen something
> like this and it's choking my primary machine.
> 
> 
> Help!!!
> 
> 
> Paul

What is the out put of the command "df -h"?. or rather what method are you 
using to determine drive space? 

Check your /tmp and perhaps /var/log -  some logs can grow to be quite large 
sometimes if there are crashes, even unseen ones. The program filelight can 
help with a visual representation of what's using space on your drive. 

/proc is a virtual filesystem, so it is not really taking up any space.


 
Clay Weber
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