[collectd] strange df output

Ben Knight bkk at nerdboy.net.au
Mon Nov 30 02:20:23 CET 2009


Hello Israel,

> Yes, I's referring at those tmp files. That's odd because I've been
> monitoring df manually and I haven't seen any tmp filesystem at all. I
> have 8 dom0 and I've found those df-tmp in all of them.

These /tmp/tmp-XXXXXXXXX filesystems are caused by xen-tools' 
xen-create-image utility. During domU creation, the domU's root filesystem 
is mounted at these mountpoints for OS creation.

They're only mounted briefly, but collectd does pick them up & create RRD 
if not ignored.

Ben



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