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From: dhawk@well.sf.ca.us (David Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Space in root partition disappearing
Message-ID: <20923@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 3 Oct 90 17:02:14 GMT
References: <2708C926.19205@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:

>We're having a problem on our Sequent Symmetry (Dynix 3.0.12) where the 
>disk space in the root partition gets used up.  I have been going
>crazy trying to find what's causing it.  I can't find any files
>being created, none of the directories is growing in size, etc.  /tmp
>is on a separate partition, so it's not that.  / is owned by root,
>is only writable by root.  There are no non-standard suid root programs
>running.  

We have the same problem with our Sequent Balance.  It's the temporary
passwd file in /etc  that doesn't get cleared after a
passwd/chfn/chsh    You can check that with   fsck -n /dev/rzd0a
(or whatever your root partition is on) and noticed the size/owner of
the unlinked file.  Unfortunately it happens on an irregular basis. We
had a big  problem with this for a long time and then it quit
happening.  Not sure why.  It could be related to the size of our
password file, which is over 330K.

later, david
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