The following _may_ be the answer to your problem. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:52:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: / filling up - where?
What you may be running into is the "invisible file" problem. Let's say you have a long-running process "foo", which keeps an open file to it's log file - that is, it doesn't open it for each message, it just keeps it open the entire time. Let's then say that while foo is running that file grows large, and you delete it. What most people don't know is that the file will still be there AND CONTINUE TO GROW until foo is killed or exits. However, it won't be accessible to any process but foo. The file will continue to take up space and show up in df, but it won't have a directory entry associated with it so it won't show up in du. I believe lsof may help you here. You may be able to find it by doing lsof|grep deleted Jon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
