Messages in this thread | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | Subject | Re: Possible bug: ext3 misreporting filesystem usage | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:53:34 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
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