Re: beagles eating my /var filesystem

["Brian J. Murrell" <brian interlinx bc ca>]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 10:21 -0500, D Bera wrote: 
> 
> A few samples from the 1500 entries ?

dpkg: /usr/share/doc/BitTorrent-5.0.7/redirdonate.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzip2/manual.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/developers/knitpack.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/developers/scratch.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/bug_trackers.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/centralized_workflow.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/configuration.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/conflicts.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/hooks.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/http_smart_server.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/plugins.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/server.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/setting_up_email.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/shared_repository_layouts.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/specifying_revisions.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/tutorial.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/using_aliases.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/version_info.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/gimp-print/FAQ.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode-tools/faq.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode-tools/revision-history.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/allclasses-frame.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/Cups.html not found.
...
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_easy_perform.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_easy_reset.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_easy_strerror.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_escape.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_formadd.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_formfree.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_formget.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_free.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_getdate.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_getenv.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_global_cleanup.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_global_init.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/libcurl/curl_mprintf.html not found.
...
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/api.html/dir_4dd2a061e2407ed4f1f2ab21061d7605.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/api.html/dir_b9f3623cfd32784aea19a73ea5a03060.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/__stdint_8h.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/__stdint_8h-source.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/annotated.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/classes.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_000000_000001.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_000000_000002.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_000000_000003.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_0718bf0d018e7220b11d4bfebdc7196a.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_7795fe1d91f25e82dc2c58f1cb6b7845.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_b9f3623cfd32784aea19a73ea5a03060.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dir_fa7d8bea03ff4011db059dd3fabdccf4.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/dirs.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/exif-byte-order_8c.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/exif-byte-order_8c-source.html not found.
dpkg: /usr/share/doc/libexif-dev/internals.html/exif-byte-order_8h.html not found.
...

And these seem to be a mixture of files really not found (which are the
alarming cases):

ls: /usr/share/doc/BitTorrent-5.0.7/redirdonate.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzip2/manual.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/developers/knitpack.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/developers/scratch.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/bug_trackers.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/centralized_workflow.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/configuration.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/conflicts.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/hooks.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/http_smart_server.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/plugins.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/server.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/setting_up_email.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/shared_repository_layouts.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/specifying_revisions.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/tutorial.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/using_aliases.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/bzr/html/en/user-guide/version_info.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/gimp-print/FAQ.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode-tools/faq.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode-tools/revision-history.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/curl.html: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/share/doc/libcurl3-openssl-dev/html/curl-config.html: No such file or directory

and files which are there but just not tracked by dpkg:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root      1550 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/allclasses-frame.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     23237 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/Cups.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     18228 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/CupsJob.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     20024 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/CupsPrinter.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     16203 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPPAttribute.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root    100872 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPPDefs.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root      6946 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPPError.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     16204 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPP.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root     81596 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPPHttp.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root      9513 2003-02-11 17:38 /usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/examples/scripting/java/docs/com/easysw/cups/IPPRequest.html

The lion's share is however the former case.  Files that don't actually
exist.

b.