On 10/24/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Ausmus wrote: > > > As a note - when I first see the issue, I have exactly 0 free space > > available on root, as per df - I then delete some random things in > > order to have enough free space to operate, which is why in my first > > df you see 55M available > > Perhaps some program still uses some (deleted) files. > > Here's how you can achieve a similar effect manually: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/file > > And on another terminal: > > # rm -f /file > > > Now watch your space decreasing with "df -h", although "the file was > deleted". Was it really? > > # lsof -n|grep /file > dd 6406 root 1w REG 8,1 807791616 > 45 /file (deleted) > > > > That said, you might want to use lsof and search for "deleted" before > concluding any further.
Thanks for the tip - I'll do that the next time the issue occurs and post my results. -James > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
