I had a weird moment yesterday when the BBS ran out of space again :/ So i loaded up ncdu and had a poke around the file system on the linux box, and while I didn't find any smoking guns, I did delete a lot of VM's as they aren't
used on this machine anymore (this is only NFS). So having cleared some Gb's of space all was well...

Today, I come home to a message that FD is out of space, and can't continue. Duly trundled over to the file server, and sure enough, /dev/sda1 100% which is
odd because its the same one I just deleted gigglybytes from. du -ah / doesn't
show anything near the space of the HD capacity, strange... I fire up ncdu again, and in confirmation of du I can't find anything out there. There should be lots of space.

Reboot the system and its showing 7% useage.

The last time I had a similar issue to this, it was an open files problem. I was deleteing VB logs while the files were open, and although it removes the file, the system still sees the full file size until its ultimately closed by the owning application. It was better to truncate than delete.

I have no idea what has sparked off this round of space eating, and so far not expecting it, I haven't run lsof to see whats got open files. But that'll be next on my agenda. In the meantime I'm open to any suggestions.

Spectre

Something prophetic ought to go here <=-

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