On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> I have PORTAGE_TMPDIR on /tmp, which is a 24GB tmpfs. Last night, an > update failed with an out of space error. df showed only 440MB free but > du and ndcu both showed well under 1GB in use (including hidden files). > this has happened on the odd occasion in the past and the only solution > appears to be to reboot. Of course, that means I cannot provide any more > information until it happens again. > > Has anyone else experienced this or, hopefully, resolved it without > rebooting? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Your lack of organisation does not represent an > emergency in my world. > Hey Neil, Yeah had this a few times. Always turns out to be deleted files that something still has a handle on Run this: # lsof /tmp | grep deleted sddm-help 324615 root 13u REG 0,32 96 184 /tmp/#184 (deleted) So here I have one. To release the 1 file, kill the process holding it open Alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
