Ward Poelmans wrote: > You can find those files with lsof | grep "deleted". Try closing the > process with deleted files and suddenly your du en df will give the > same free diskspace. > Ofcourse, a reboot does also the trick.
lsof | grep -i deleted ... /dev/console (deleted) mysqld 5679 mysql 5u REG 8,1 0 1009860 /tmp/iby8kN8L (deleted) mysqld 5679 mysql 6u REG 8,1 0 1009861 /tmp/ib3OyWjn (deleted) mysqld 5679 mysql 7u REG 8,1 0 1009862 /tmp/ibCqa6uY (deleted) mysqld 5679 mysql 8u REG 8,1 0 1009863 /tmp/ibnDCmHz (deleted) mysqld 5679 mysql 12u REG 8,1 0 1009864 /tmp/ibaQcs5a (deleted) ... Nothing so big. just about 20 lines and the biggest ones are these. This server hosts accounting software for an ISP: just a couple python scripts, apache with PHP and a small Postgresql database. Bests Platoali t