topic Re: /opt increse unexpectedly in Operating System - Linux

/opt increse unexpectedly

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 08 May 2006 10:49:48 GMT

I have a Linux server the /opt partition had only the apache configuration file and other data like htdocs and others, i have a strang condition that the partition get filled then i empty alot of data from it but after a while the size of it increase bit by bit until it is filled again ,I check all the files and processes nothing apears unusial, it really seems strange, I do not know where is the problem.
BR;

Re: /opt increse unexpectedly

Vipulinux — Mon, 08 May 2006 11:16:59 GMT

Hi
What sort of data fills the /opt that you delete.

Rgds

Re: /opt increse unexpectedly

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:15:27 GMT

may be you put Apache logfiles under /opt?
anyway - I suggest to run (and may be send us) two checks:

1) du /opt |sort -rn| head -20
2) find /opt -mtime -1

Re: /opt increse unexpectedly

Fadia Almarei — Tue, 09 May 2006 02:31:18 GMT

thank you, I find the file and solve the problem.