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Oracle Linux: How to Figure out Which Processes are Creating and/or Deleting Files under A Directory (Doc ID 2898844.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Linux ARM 64-bit
Linux x86
Linux x86-64

Goal

Occasionally you may observe disk space usage becomes dramatically in a or some directories, in critical production systems this may trigger alert emails from monitoring systems.

This note helps to address this kind of issues with auditd service and rules.

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