Rogue process??

[Paul Kaplan]

Used df -h to report the results below. 


I cleared /tmp manually, but it fills back up (to 100M) on next login. /var/log is relatively small. 


I did notice that on another machine /proc/kcore is only about 1Gb whereas on the problem machine is nearly 2Tb. 


It may be faster to just reinstall. 
P 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Weber" <clay at claydoh.com> 
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:51:16 PM 
Subject: Re: Rogue process?? 

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 
http://kubuntuforums.net 
http://claydoh.com 

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