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.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear Group,
I am not much used to UNIX. The company I am hosting wiht refuses to help me with this trouble, but as near as I can see, it is NOT my trouble.
I have had this service for over a year. I just renewed for another year and all of a sudden the disk quota has been disappearing. I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cindy
3 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello
I run Gentoo Linux on my computer:
Athlon XP 1700+ ~1,46 mhz
512 mb ram
After a while, my computer works really slow, and when I cat /proc/meminfo, I see that I only have 8mb of 512 mb free!
How is that possible?
I dont run anything I can think of that eats that amount of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Maestin
4 Replies
3. What is on Your Mind?
Hi, guys !
I was wondering... how many of you are vegetarians ? and why ? (31 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sergiu-IT
31 Replies
4. Solaris
Hi,
I am not very much fmiliar with Solaris OS. My main concern for posting is One application is eating 50% of CPU and I cannot run that application, If I perform any action in that application it takes real long time.
I have solaris installed on my development machine.I have my application... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandu345
11 Replies
5. Solaris
Hi,
I have installed sendmail on my solaris server. But sendmail its up high memory. its eat upto around 9-10 GB memory.
What to do in this ?
Thanks
NeeleshG (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: neel.gurjar
6 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
Could someone explain me why the below code is printing the contents of IF block 5 times instead of 0?
#!/bin/bash
VAR1="something"
VAR2="something"
for((i=0;i<10;i++))
do
if(($VAR1=~$VAR2))
then
echo VAR1: $VAR1
echo... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: machinogodzilla
3 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to calculate the CPU Usage by getting the difference between the idle time reported by /proc/stat at 2 different intervals. Now the 4th entry in the first line of /proc/stat will give me the 'idle time'. But I also came across /proc/uptime that gives me 2 entries : 1st one as the... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: coderd
0 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
how to find a job which is writing a big file and eating up space? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rush2andy
3 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
using AWK iam sorting auniq data from a file the file size is 8GB, while running that script , the over all cpu usage will be nearly 8
how to avoid this ?? any other alternate is available for awk?
Thanks in Advance
Anish kumar.V (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: anishkumarv
13 Replies
10. SuSE
Im issuing a cat /proc/mdstat, dmraid -r, and finding a cciss, to know if my server is software raid and hardware raid. But all of them are missing.
What is the other way to know, your disk are raid, your disks is sync, your disk are out of sync, your disk is failed, ASIDE LOOKING AT THEM... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: invinzin21
0 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
quotaon
QUOTAON(8) BSD System Manager's Manual QUOTAON(8)
NAME
quotaon, quotaoff -- turn filesystem quotas on and off
SYNOPSIS
quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] -a
quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem ...
quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] -a
DESCRIPTION
Quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems. Quotaoff announces to the system that the
specified filesystems should have disk quotas turned off. The filesystem must be mounted and it must have the appropriate mount option file
located at its root, the .quota.ops.user file for user quota configuration, and the .quota.ops.group file for group quota configuration.
Quotaon also expects each filesystem to have the appropriate quota data files located at its root, the .quota.user file for user data, and
the .quota.group file for group data. These filenames and their root location cannot be overridden. By default, quotaon will attempt to
enable both user and group quotas. By default, quotaoff will disable both user and group quotas.
Available options:
-a If the -a flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names, quotaon/quotaoff will enable/disable any filesystems with an existing
mount option file at its root. The mount option file specifies the types of quotas that are to be configured.
-g Only group quotas will be enabled/disabled. The mount option file, .quota.ops.group, must exist at the root of the filesystem.
-u Only user quotas will be enabled/disabled. The mount option file, .quota.ops.user, must exist at the root of the filesystem.
-v Causes quotaon and quotaoff to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.
Specifying both -g and -u is equivalent to the default.
Quotas for both users and groups will automatically be turned on at filesystem mount if the appropriate mount option file and binary data
file is in place at its root.
FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the mounted filesystem. The mount option files are empty files whose existence
indicates that quotas are to be enabled for that filesystem.
.quota.user data file containing user quotas
.quota.group data file containing group quotas
.quota.ops.user mount option file used to enable user quotas
.quota.ops.group mount option file used to enable group quotas
SEE ALSO
quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), repquota(8)
HISTORY
The quotaon command appeared in 4.2BSD.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution October 17, 2002 4.2 Berkeley Distribution