Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space

["James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@gmail.com>]

On 10/24/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> 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

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