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06-11-2018, 01:08 PM
#16
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Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA).
http://www.exim.org/
Delete it and you may end up deleting emails and history, at least locally.
06-11-2018, 11:56 PM
#17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Targenor
And it seems to be some kind of email logs, must be a standard issue in debian since i dont know i have installed any mail client.
if you don't run a mail server i'd say the system is trying to tell you something very urgently.
in other words, these could be error messages. you should look at them (they're probably plain text files).
02-15-2019, 01:09 AM
#18
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Location: Sweden
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
AwesomeMachine
What sort of system is this?
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 (n/a)
Release: 7.11
02-15-2019, 01:11 AM
#19
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I still havent solved this
Quote:
Targenor@Goblin ~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 16G 16G 0 100% /
/dev/root 16G 16G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 230M 0 230M 0% /dev
tmpfs 46M 848k 46M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 92M 0 92M 0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 59M 18M 42M 30% /boot
tmpfs 92M 4.1k 92M 1% /tmp
The pi has been reboted to and there is still this problem, but it seems that it dosen grow? Perhaps its something that generates logs and then cant since its out of space?
02-15-2019, 01:17 AM
#20
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
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Posts: 21,128
Don't use [quote] tags, use [code] tags to retain layout readability. Run this
Code:
sudo du / -xh | sort -hr | head -n 20
02-15-2019, 05:05 AM
#21
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Registered: Nov 2017
Location: Sweden
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Code:
root@Goblin ~# sudo du / -xh | sort -hr | head -n 20
15G /
6.9G /etc
6.8G /etc/.git/objects
6.8G /etc/.git
4.1G /usr
2.8G /var
1.9G /var/spool/exim4/input
1.9G /var/spool/exim4
1.9G /var/spool
1.8G /usr/lib
1.7G /usr/share
540M /var/cache
478M /home
445M /usr/lib/ghc
398M /usr/share/icons
379M /home/Targenor
361M /usr/share/webmin
354M /var/cache/apt
319M /var/cache/apt/archives
290M /usr/share/doc
spool is printer related?
02-15-2019, 05:35 AM
#22
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Historically yes - printer or mail.
You need to concentrate on the big stuff at the top of the list. The "dot" in .git makes it all hidden by default, which is why you missed it.
02-15-2019, 05:49 AM
#23
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Location: Sweden
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
syg00
Historically yes - printer or mail.
You need to concentrate on the big stuff at the top of the list. The "dot" in .git makes it all hidden by default, which is why you missed it.
I couldnt access the folder whitout the root account is that something that makes it systemrelated (removing it will make the system to stop working?)
02-15-2019, 07:09 AM
#24
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Registered: Nov 2017
Location: Sweden
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It looks like this....
Code:
root@Goblin .git/objects# ls
00 09 12 1b 24 2d 36 3f 48 51 5a 63 6c 75 7e 87 90 99 a2 ab b4 bd c6 cf d8 e1 ea f3 fc
01 0a 13 1c 25 2e 37 40 49 52 5b 64 6d 76 7f 88 91 9a a3 ac b5 be c7 d0 d9 e2 eb f4 fd
02 0b 14 1d 26 2f 38 41 4a 53 5c 65 6e 77 80 89 92 9b a4 ad b6 bf c8 d1 da e3 ec f5 fe
03 0c 15 1e 27 30 39 42 4b 54 5d 66 6f 78 81 8a 93 9c a5 ae b7 c0 c9 d2 db e4 ed f6 ff
04 0d 16 1f 28 31 3a 43 4c 55 5e 67 70 79 82 8b 94 9d a6 af b8 c1 ca d3 dc e5 ee f7 info
05 0e 17 20 29 32 3b 44 4d 56 5f 68 71 7a 83 8c 95 9e a7 b0 b9 c2 cb d4 dd e6 ef f8 pack
06 0f 18 21 2a 33 3c 45 4e 57 60 69 72 7b 84 8d 96 9f a8 b1 ba c3 cc d5 de e7 f0 f9
07 10 19 22 2b 34 3d 46 4f 58 61 6a 73 7c 85 8e 97 a0 a9 b2 bb c4 cd d6 df e8 f1 fa
08 11 1a 23 2c 35 3e 47 50 59 62 6b 74 7d 86 8f 98 a1 aa b3 bc c5 ce d7 e0 e9 f2 fb
Code:
root@Goblin objects/1b# ls
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0bcb4b840f21d5ef7c4e0849865f7d24985783 4cd340fd22ca7b1b34dea2deb935500d87c7f3 b0529060b7693ee744ce5dd491f7534659e028
0c872888a8f1d671fd18e0ae4627d7c803b4c6 4d3e1716786aa6ea387b274c1ee8e0f043b54b b0641ad38f3e639e4ef014524ba204e6157c51
0da937e8098b61d049be3f68938debebd4abac 4e17837f88fb5b8eacd157eb0fad8bd5eb3d24 b0c91e20990efc4fd07491a57090e0cd536c13
1742a4c130e1e4c0adde90947efee8d607a2cb 4fa50103ee613bd6edc848d0f7737534757499 b76ff271ae921cb8bba0a53de79cf8bb656280
1a5acb21105092d184c6556b5d020b5cfde8a6 50c1244dfc2d6a4924750b9f565ec610068874 b80c04f4429ccc27e7ffb2bfe063dc28e25986
1e5b504bada3dbeea526160333b8d7c4db24a4 50d80ef84ea1e8da83db5ffd6a7022c43247d7 b81d758cdeeb5a591094b5deb9f5cfc5684baf
1ea517b211485cf235a645883b1fc3b1b16955 54e8d6c0522aa1c601236f4301f10a7eecad2c bde7b6b4c336896a2d193f7e6c39c4ddde2dc7
1f3ebf9dabf6b60eb2072da19821dbfa21c549 580f6c24f6d98843b2ddbb98e0514b4edd44c9 bfabbb2dba68f8d1bab380e72270d6fe1c3aff
1fcbf017f7fbd2eae1c11d1c4254e58975e35a 589e6b10490d011fad1ab3c225ac647d88fa40 c1fc7e5e6cec2bb0d9affa8e3716e0328b22c7
200a2e681fe140915d9a3fc01b0e2da053bec5 5c480fbff2080bbfac4cfd8ee0a60c20a20ce6 c51627bf547cab98141075df3ace743b82c672
26444ef4ee6e0d26d0499a0f925dee3248f3ea 64c1bc74d637360d2e1e74da6fe9a2b375adb7 c88465aaad576a58277e19c331115bda5a9c30
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3109cef70ca017fcb6e5022d65730313c7871c 7f114fed5bc18f24d4529846dbaac9a3e65168 da0a2304f78503362f3a298aff4ae24ce16a78
344e6504281fedbb85d50eb69e1165cb873c70 82496d27fa5cf97b66fb36e0afa3262f0be6c0 da260347466823d229febadfd595bd806dcf31
34692d2ffab13ac2df8512343ee251aabd4c1d 8950c692ddcd254320cfc0a45e88987833ea62 e1613ab20a8d91fa8bb73608cfb8c450f5f413
34a9c0b0f8c8702d3837e925d3f56177f34781 8d32e328a9c82b8cb6b3bc9c41b4f0275a34a7 e4a9b6ba6a3be7b972ea3691b41aa114fbe090
363afc776fe78d0942170e2958c8c189f2dba8 999bbb1715bfaa862eae870db8ea15be3140a0 e9048de850ce47621ec6c12584aa0d3d553cc7
371d2a7a61db7301d6b636d80a7cc6adaf424e 9bd146716afb08a55d927c24f4957ae796cc61 ea94e4b4f5bf6016d9ef60855fd964fe998824
3a54ffaa91bb7fae0bc6fef751c0f682dcddde 9e4e3deb4dd6bafdbdff082b7d2f4e95e86aba eb5159d289775d6c8268350957f57eb69a57be
3be825676448dfdb9932a3d6fe4806cd9a2bb2 a01cb10cccd2f705c1d2f7617bda27c1434081 ebc14c03b7cf9ab9ad8f3d6432b273ba1de955
3bf4912decbd949ad71d87f6e4da27db6767b9 a092d85ab7d27c7c38ac8bb7c2cca0919ce473 ec3658307611453b75cecbb1e8a06b7e64ccd1
4035f0c14d8542ecfcb91c4f5b74f040ac0c12 a11b7e66317dd72e9043eeb12a8b61965da3b8 edf7113d5297255f357ed8dae56b590b2ffdaf
4089f6dfb56e68ff5a45b490dc14e78cf18455 a266173d86c722e8eb58c0f402b5abb61aeed6 ef4fe9e975f866aba5116afe26b3cacef6c28b
431a3766ca98d3b541a64176aa52f85d6cbfb6 a9246ddf25c143993e22e866c111077361b287 f9c637b508721712f36a4d724f78b5d68d1e0c
4502f09afd0eb933a8dafbc98c1e8e9354e19e ac80861a627337b5d4fd99eeccbbf25c46660d
Ive tried to nano the file 1742a4c130e1e4c0adde90947efee8d607a2cb and got this,not much that i can get out of it..
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02-15-2019, 09:01 AM
#25
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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
Can you remember installing git or anything git-related?
Try this:
so that we can see if anything in the .git directory itself gives us a clue as to what all these files are.
02-15-2019, 09:29 AM
#26
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.git in /etc could be etckeeper, but it's still a huge size
did you try to inspect /etc with a git client?
02-16-2019, 06:23 AM
#27
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Posts: 19,872
op's description looks a lot like a standard .git directory inside any git repo.
does etckeeper make a git repository out of /etc?
that would explain why it's there. or op accidenatlly ran 'git init' inside /etc. as root.
02-16-2019, 09:13 AM
#28
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i can't imagine why would just git init produce a .git directory with a size of 7 GB
02-16-2019, 03:47 PM
#29
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^ well i just checked my git repos on my machine, the .git directory is often about twice as large as the actual repo.
I guess it has something to do with its age and how many commits were made.
particularly the difference between size on disk and actual file size is orders of magnitude larger.
would be interesting to know how large op's /etc is in total.
and at the root of a .git directory are some plain text files that should give clarity about what's going on.
02-16-2019, 03:55 PM
#30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
ondoho
would be interesting to know how large op's /etc is in total.
he has that info above:
this makes perfect sense, /etc is mostly tiny config files
that giant .git is definitely the offender there
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