/ space usage

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Haney wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:30, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>What's the output of:
>>>>
>>>>mailq -Ac
>>>>
>>>
>>>[root at marius clientmqueue]# mailq -Ac
>>>/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
>>>                Total requests: 0
>>
>>Strange; is the 2MB file still there?
>>
>>ls -l /var/spool/clientmqueue
>>file /var/spool/clientmqueue/*
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Yep.  Still there.  file lists it as data.  Here's the output:
> 
> [root at marius clientmqueue]# ls -l
> total 2099200
> -rw-rw----  1 markh smmsp 2147483647 Sep 20 17:07 dfi8KL00F0004975
> [root at marius clientmqueue]# file *
> dfi8KL00F0004975: data

That's not 2MB, it's 2GB! It's not surprising that that mail couldn't be 
delivered.

How about ps uaxww | grep mail?

The file is owned by you so it's one of your processes that's generating it. 
Do you have any cron jobs set up that might generate large volumes of output?

Paul.