Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: v: huge random file, why? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121346140.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3621FDAE.AAA2BAA1@graphnet.com>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote:
> I run a web server on 2.2.7 with Apache 1.3.2, and everything runs
> beautifully. Over the weekend, though, the root fs ran out of space: it
> went from 25M (25%) on Friday night to 103M (104%) on Monday morning.
> Searching for what could've caused this, I found this file:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78749696 Oct 10 19:47 v
^^^^^
Anyone on at this time? Try 'file v' and see what it is. If it's a
compress archive assume you've been comprimised.
> The contents of the file looked like compiled code, but it wasn't
> executable. What was particularly disturbing was that it was owned by
> root.... Has anyone run into this at all? Any idea why it could happen?
> And also, just as a side note, how can a file system take up more than
> 100% of what it's alotted?
See newfs(8) for why. It's a UFS performance tune.
Doug White
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