On 10/25/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > > Clearly some process is still using a deleted file. However, if it > doesn't happen with 2.6.22.x kernels, it would seem fall under the > category of regression, in the "used to work" sense. Before going > further you may want to be really sure that an older kernel doesn't do > this, so no one wastes time on a non-problem. > > Assuming the older kernel works fine, it's possible that some new > behavior of the kernel as causing a process to misbehave, and step one > is to use lsof and try to find the process. It's possible that "top" > might be useful, although whatever is using the disk space may just be > lurking. >
OK, false alarm, this is definitely a userpsace (or a user... :) problem - had a 12GB .xsession-errors file that I had deleted but was still being held open - now I just have to determine why I have a 12GB .xsession-errors file... :( Thanks for the help all! -James > -- > Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > - 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/
