The folder size of /usr keep increasing
As the topic stated, the folder /usr keep increasing and I don’t have enough skill to identify what is it or where exactly the problem source. It could be a log file but even du -ch <dir> I still unable to find it. Any idea?
So far this is the only suggestion that make sense:
[root@webhosting /root]# cd / [root@webhosting /]# du -k --max-depth=1 /usr | sort -nr 4545976 /usr 1591248 /usr/src 1326160 /usr/share 707120 /usr/lib 452592 /usr/local 156864 /usr/bin 100048 /usr/include 96468 /usr/libexec 81116 /usr/X11R6 32820 /usr/sbin 1412 /usr/kerberos 76 /usr/man 16 /usr/lost+found 16 /usr/etc 8 /usr/games [root@webhosting /]#
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The possibilities that your /usr keep increasing its size is :
1) Faulty script that does automated functions that increase your disk usage
2) A virus, linux usually dont have virus but i think that an automated script that have the functions to increase your disk n memory usage, can cause your system to lag and do more things.
not really expert in linux but i read about this problem before, forgot where oredy..
It was a shell script owned by directadmin that does an automatic update to the software. Finally!