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On Sunday 24 May 2009 08:42:07 Mike Kazantsev wrote: |
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> Now I know that df can actually show weird results sometimes but I |
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> wonder why (re)moving files from a file system doesn't affect it's |
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> output at all. |
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I had this on an Oracle machine a while ago - huge amounts of space being |
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consumed by files that are not there. It was deleted files to which a running |
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process still had an open handle. |
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lsof | grep 'deleted' reveals these buggers |
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> Do I really have 5G there which will be depleted soon and there's |
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> nothing I can do to help it? |
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> If not, how come anyone trusts df output at all when it can report |
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> almost-empty fs to be almost-full? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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