On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: > Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> writes: > >> On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> >> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> 3 >> # >> >> But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) >> I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really be a lot of those. >> >> But it's a good point, Sven, because there still might be some issue >> that is keeping even 1 of those in some extended length, but deleted, >> file. Maybe not, though, on '/'. >> >> I'll reboot the system at the end of the day. Though it's a weekend, >> at the moment it'll be in use for a couple of hours, yet. > > Another possibility to look into is that there might be files under your > mount points. For example, you might have saved files under /usr on > your root filesystem, but later mounted a /usr filesystem on top without > deleting the files in the original filesystem.
Indeed. > The only way that I know > of to check that would be to check one filesystem at a time in single > user mode, or from a live CD. Huh, why that? A simple "mount --bind / /mnt" makes all those files visible under /mnt, and you can delete them at your leisure. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87tx8wdnyi....@turtle.gmx.de