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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers /proc is eating my disk man Post 34015 by Perderabo on Thursday 30th of January 2003 09:56:34 AM
Old 01-30-2003
Look at it this way... If your root filesystem filled up and you ran "du -sk *" from /, I'll bet that you will get some large number for /var, and /usr among other too. But you know to ignore those because they're a seperate filesystem. You can see what filesystem they are on by doing:
df -k /usr
df -k /var

So run the following command:
df -k /proc
What do you get? How much of that zero do you think that you need to recover? If you're bummed out at how big the subdirectories 156 and 24967 seem to be...it's this easy:
kill -9 156 24967

Once the process is dead the subdirectory will no long appear.

As for your problem...do I understand that you are storing firewall logs on the root filesystem and then you are wondering why root is full??!! Don't store stuff in the root filesystem! Use other filesystems for that.
 

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mounting

mounting(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					       mounting(7)

NAME

       mounting - event signalling that a filesystem is mounting

SYNOPSIS

       mounting DEVICE=DEVICE MOUNTPOINT=MOUNTPOINT TYPE=TYPE OPTIONS=OPTIONS [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  mounting  event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon when it is about to mount a filesystem.  mountall(8) will wait for all services
       started by this event to be running, all tasks started by this event to have finished and all jobs stopped by  this  event  to  be  stopped
       before proceeding with mounting the filesystem.

       The DEVICE, MOUNTPOINT, TYPE and OPTIONS environment variables contain the values of the fstab(5) fields for this mountpoint.

EXAMPLE

       A tool that should be run before mounting the /var filesystem might use:

	      start on mounting MOUNTPOINT=/var
	      task

SEE ALSO

       mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21							       mounting(7)
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