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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:05:12 -0700
Anthony Floyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:54:54 +0200
> Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Salut,
> > 
> > here you see my diskspace made with df -h , the problem is my /root 
> > it  shows me only 18M available, but with 'du' it must be about 300 
> > M, I made it the 'du' also for the other partitions and  it is OK.
> > Has anybody a hint for me.


> 
> From the ext3 FAQ
> (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html):
> 
> Q: 'df' command says partition is full, while 'du' reports free space
> Theodore Ts'o, the ext2 developer, said: 
> 
> The standard cause for this is some user process keeping a deleted
> file open.


To find the process in question, heres a trick using "lsof" (do it as
root )

/usr/sbin/lsof -n  |grep delete -  


HTH, HAND
  //Spider



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