system gobbles disk space

From	Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	system gobbles disk space
Date	2016-09-26 11:50 +0200
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Hi,

For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space
overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files.

If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume.

How can I determine what is eating the space?

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system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-26 11:50 +0200
  Re: system gobbles disk space <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-26 12:10 +0200
  Re: system gobbles disk space Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2016-09-26 13:00 +0200
    Re: system gobbles disk space <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-26 16:10 +0200
      Re: system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-26 16:40 +0200
        Re: system gobbles disk space <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-26 17:10 +0200
          Re: system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-27 11:00 +0200
            Re: system gobbles disk space <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-27 13:20 +0200
              Re: system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-27 16:50 +0200
                Re: system gobbles disk space Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-09-27 18:00 +0200
                Re: system gobbles disk space <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-27 18:40 +0200
                Re: system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-27 18:40 +0200
  [SOLVED] Re: system gobbles disk space Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 11:10 +0200

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