help with disk usage

[brettg]

It appears that you might be running a webserver here.

Do this;

lsof /var/tmp

I know it sounds strange but if you see a large volume of files here try restarting apache and let me know what happens.

[plablo09]

I found some info here.

Best thing to do would be to run fsck on that device, to rule out file system corruption.

Well, I finally had time to do this with:

shutdown -rF

fsck didnt complain on boot, but nothing was written to the logs and the problem persisted. I'm thinking that fsck could have exited with some error due to this but I'm not shure.

I'm gonna try to run fsck from a livecd to see whats going on
Thanks

[plablo09]

It appears that you might be running a webserver here.

Do this;

lsof /var/tmp

I know it sounds strange but if you see a large volume of files here try restarting apache and let me know what happens.

Well,

lsof /var/tmp

returns nothing

[iponeverything]

you probably ran out of inodes.


run:

df -i

[plablo09]

you probably ran out of inodes.


run:

df -i

Ok, that's right on!
I've found the culprit, a script was generating way more tiles than needed
Thanks a lot everyboy for your help!