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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
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Subject: Re: Space in root partition disappearing
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Date: 4 Oct 90 04:14:25 GMT
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In article <2708C926.19205@orion.oac.uci.edu> 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.  

As many people have suggested (both here and via email), we had programs
keeping /etc/passwd open.  This being the begining of the quarter, and
we encourage students to change their passwords when they first log
on, we had several copies of the passwd file floating around until
processes exited (mostly caused by a locally written math quiz system).
We've fixed the offending programs and things are much better now.

Thanks to all who took the time to respond!


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
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