From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug: ext3 misreporting filesystem usage
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:53:34 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9l0me$cf1$1@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1275157.LnyMtzroWT@ironfroggy.com
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 12:31 Possible bug: ext3 misreporting filesystem usage Calvin Spealman
2004-06-02 16:53 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2004-06-03 0:49 ` Calvin Spealman
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2004-06-07 9:19 ` Walter Hofmann
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