Hi 

On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:11:44 +0100, "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
wrote:
> >         *Each* morning my root disk free space drops by one 1GB,
> >         starting at 07:00 linearly until 09:00.
> This sounds like a job for lsof or 'find / -mmin 5 2> /dev/null'. Run

        Better, dont cross filesystems (so dont enter backuppc mount) and
find LESS than 5 minutes (with some bad luck, no files would be
created on exactly 5 minutes)

 find / -xdev -mmin -5 2> /dev/null

        also run lsof and ps xua or pstree... with this you can see
what is using the space.

        i bet a file in /tmp, a result from a compression or a backup

Good luck
higuita
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