On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:21 PM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I trimmed a lot of useful context only because I don't have > anything terribly useful to say about it. > > Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > jmetzmeier@localhost:/tmp $ df -hT /tmp > > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > tmpfs tmpfs 16G 3.5G 13G 22% /tmp > > > > However, `du` does not show 3.5GB of files inside: > > > > jmetzmeier@localhost:/tmp $ sudo du -sh ./ > > 32K ./ > > > > Does anyone know what could be happening here? Does writing a file to > > tmpfs and then deleting it cause the tmpfs to retain that allocated > > memory until reboot? > > > > My system is running Fedora 34. I have ensured nothing is mounted over > > top of /tmp and hiding files. > > I don't know if there are subtle issues because this is a > memory-based tmpfs filesystem. But in general, you can see > something like this if a process opens a file and keeps it > open after it's deleted. The space used by that file isn't > freed until the process which has it open exits (or closes > the file). > > You can look for that sort of thing with the lsof command: > > sudo lsof -a +L1 /tmp > > Maybe that will point to what's taking up the space. > > -- > Todd
Deleted files were the culprit, thanks! _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
