Re: Counters in df, du

[Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:09:29AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name> writes:
> >
> > I know that df, du can show different values if some files were deleted,
> > but the processes which opened these files are still acting.
> 
> You can check for that by doing ls -l /proc/*/fd | grep deleted
> 
> It won't tell you the file size though.

There comes a big list, like this:

lowx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 14:58 1763 -> /tmp/ZCUDXqiMTp (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 14:58 1763 -> /tmp/ZCUDXqiMTp (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 14:58 1763 -> /tmp/ZCUDXqiMTp (deleted)
[cut]
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 15:29 317 -> /tmp/ZCUDXiOHCk (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 15:29 317 -> /tmp/ZCUDXiOHCk (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 13 15:29 317 -> /tmp/ZCUDXiOHCk (deleted)

But you can see the file date, these are new files and by next search
you won't see them any more.

The most interesting is that the /tmp size constantly grows.

-- 
BRGDS. Alexey Vlasov.