Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Calvin Spealman <> | | Subject | Re: Possible bug: ext3 misreporting filesystem usage | | Date | Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:49:40 +0000 |
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <1275157.LnyMtzroWT@ironfroggy.com>, > Calvin Spealman <calvin@ironfroggy.com> wrote: >>I've been getting a possible bug after running my system a few weeks. The >>ext3 partition's usage is being misreported. Right now, df -h says ive got >>no space left, but according to du /, I'm only using 17 gigs of my 40 gig >>drive. Restarting fixes the problem, so I'm thinking it might be some >>mis-handled variable in memory, not something on the disc itself? And, >>yes, I do know that du is right, not df, because I keep good track of my >>disc usage. This is pretty serious, it killed a 40+ hour process that i'll >>have to start over again from the beginning! > > There's a process holding on to a 23 GB logfile that has been > deleted. Try "ls -l /proc/*/fd/* 2>&1 | grep deleted" . Kill the > process and you'll have your space back. > > Mike.
All that shows is a couple things from konq's http cache, nothing adding nearly to the 23 gigs.
If i delete some files, i have more space, but then the used space steadily increases until i have nothing left again. i am running a 2.6.6_rc1 kernel.
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