From: Joe R. Jah (jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us)
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 03:39:30 EDT
Wow! That was quick;)
Many thanks to:
Mike Salehi <mike.salehi@kodak.com>
"Mangat, Vicky" <Vicky.Mangat@centrica.co.uk>
"Sjolshagen, Thomas (Tru64 UNIX Eng.)" <thomas.sjolshagen@hp.com>
Rick Rezinas <rick@beerdrinker.org>
Scott M. Sorrentino <scott@sorrentino.net>
Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@us.fujitsu.com>
Iain Miller <iainonthemove@gmail.com>
Original question:
> Since early this morning one of my partitions have become full:
>
> # df /dptweb
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/amir0d 25019863 23770030 -1161 100% /dptweb
>
> However:
>
> # du -s /dptweb
> 6680278 /dptweb
>
> How can I resolve the problem.
Michael's response is the most comprehensive, and doesn't need to be
summarized;)
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Michael Schulte wrote:
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:58:05 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
> To: jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us
> Subject: Re: File system full, but not according to du;(
>
> The easy solution: reboot
> The hard solution: find the process that is holding a deleted file open, and
> kill that process.
>
> The problem is (very probably): when a file is deleted, the file space is
> NOT recovered until all the processes that have the file open have
> closed it (or died). Many system processes open a file when they start
> and never close it; if someone deletes that file, the space is still
> allocated.
>
> You notice the problem because df and du count the space differently.
> Df counts space from the inodes (which gives all allocated space);
> du follows the directory structure, so it only get file space accessible
> by name.
>
> ---
> Michael Schulte Specialist in Computer Science
> Math/CS Dept. (MC-61) (314) 516 5239
> Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis schulte@cs.umsl.edu
> One University Boulevard http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~schulte
> St. Louis, MO 63121 USA
Regards,
Joe
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