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Hello,

two days ago the 'Storage' suddenly grew from 23% to 82% usage. It has been around 23% for more then a year, so what can be wrong?
I was running 8.301 but installed 8.302 and rebooted this morning. No change in disk-usage.
As far as I know 'Storage' is mounted on /var/storage and the only 'large' files I can find are several kcore files:
Code:

-r-------- 1 root root 1065349120 2012-05-16 07:50 /var/storage/chroot-smtp/proc/kcore
Four of these kcore-files, for: smtp, ftp, http and pop3 could be what takes up the extra 4 to 5 Gig from the 8 GB partition. They can't have been there before because they take more space than the 23% in the past. So what are these files and why were they created recently and how can I fix this?

Edit: just found out that /proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory and are not real files that use space on disk.

Ed

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