From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: "James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710251356.22639.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b79f23070710241105n725e7a9dh78bb3747adc44437@mail.gmail.com>
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James Ausmus wrote:
> Since updating my laptop to 2.6.23, occasionally all of my free disk
> space on my root partition will just go away, with no files accounting
> for the space, with no odd messages in dmesg or my syslog. If I
> reboot, I immediately have the proper amount of free space again. Here
> is the output of a du -sx * on /, and the output of the df command
> when the problem is occuring, followed by the same info after a fresh
> reboot (literally just did the command in the failed state, then
> immediately rebooted and ran the same commands again) - any thoughts
> as to what might be happening?
The file that eats up the memory is still opened by a process, but deleted.
HTH
Eike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 18:05 Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space James Ausmus
2007-10-25 11:56 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2007-10-26 0:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-26 19:14 ` James Ausmus
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2007-10-24 18:25 Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-10-24 18:30 ` James Ausmus
2007-10-26 19:19 Tomasz Chmielewski
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