logwatch reports

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> The logwatch reports emailed to root every night are a bit of a puzzle in the 
> disk free space dept.
> 
> Without my actions, I'd think it ought to be fairly stable, but I'm seeing df 
> reports of /dev/LogVolGroup00 having 51GB used one day, and 47GB used the 
> next day.  And last nights was 45GB.  I haven't done that much housecleaning, 
> and df now reports 47GB used right now.
> 
> Surely there has not been 2GB of incoming mail since kmail last expired stuff, 
> more like 100k maybe, so I'd like to figure out where all this data is coming 
> from and and going to.
> 
> I just scanned all the way through an lsof report without seeing any red 
> flags.
> 
> Does anyone have an Idea on how to 'catch this in the act' folks?
> 
Disk usage should include the mount points, which one is changing? You 
can run this down, but start with which filesystem is changing.

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