Dsik usage error
Sam Sharpe
lists.redhat at samsharpe.net
Wed Jan 13 23:20:38 UTC 2010
2010/1/13 William John Murray <bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk>:
>
> Hello all,
> Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk
> partition of 65GB in LVM; df says:
>
> /dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% /
>
> However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it
> add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various
> others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under
> liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used.
> So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is
> out of space.
> Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.
I often find that it's files which are deleted, that are still held
open. e.g. rotated logs where the owning process has not been
reloaded.
Try:
lsof | grep deleted
That should show up and deleted files still open.
--
Sam
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