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On 05/09/2010 01:39 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: |
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> I shutdown this computer everyday, those temp files shouldn't be alive |
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> for months. |
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> I ran lsof | grep deleted and it returned 132 lines, the biggest number |
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> being 2032226 (2 MB?), belonging to the Chromium browser process. even |
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> if every line had that value (which is not), that would sum up 264 MB, |
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> but the difference of reported/real free space is way bigger than that. |
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> changing the filesystem back to ext3 can solve this problem? it was ext3 |
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> before I've changed it to ext4 some months ago. |
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> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> You probably have files opened that have since been deleted. du |
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> doesn't report |
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> them as the names are no longer in the directory and df doesn't |
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> report them as |
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> they are pending deletion once the last handle to them is closed. |
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> It's a nasty thing to find. Run this: |
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> lsof | grep deleted |
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> You should find a ton of junk temp files (they will go away when you |
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> log out). |
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> Look for big numbers in column 8 |
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> On Sunday 09 May 2010 00:46:28 Crístian Viana wrote: |
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> > it doesn't seem so :-( |
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> > |
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> > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on |
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> > /dev/sda6 20856832 108698 20748134 1% /home |
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> > I didn't know that the filesystem could run out of inodes before |
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> the disk |
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> > space itself! thanks for the information :-) |
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> > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras |
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> <realnc@×××××.de <mailto:realnc@×××××.de>> wrote: |
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> > > On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: |
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> > >> hi everyone, |
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> > >> |
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> > >> something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new |
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> files, it |
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> > >> says "No space left on device", but the disk has several |
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> gigabytes of |
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> > >> free space! |
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> > > |
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> > > The filesystem probably ran out of inodes. "df -i /home" will |
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> show inode |
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> > > usage. This can happen when you have many small files; they |
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> eat inodes |
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> > > but not storage space. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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this is unlikely, but can you create files as root? ext filesystems |
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reserve a certain amount of space for root use only. you can change this |
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with tune2fs if necessary. |
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