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Old 12-06-2010
Find the file which is growing at high speed
Hi,

A log file which is growing at high speed, don't know the name of it. How to find the respective file?

Many thanks.
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Old 12-06-2010
There a number of ways. "Lsof" is a useful tool - you dump a list of files that processes have open - just look for one with a large offset.

Another way is to look for large files, for example:
Code:
find / -size +4M -print

will for example find files > 4M on /
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Old 12-06-2010
Thanks citaylor!!!
 
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