On Sunday 24 May 2009 08:42:07 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > Now I know that df can actually show weird results sometimes but I > wonder why (re)moving files from a file system doesn't affect it's > output at all.
I had this on an Oracle machine a while ago - huge amounts of space being consumed by files that are not there. It was deleted files to which a running process still had an open handle. lsof | grep 'deleted' reveals these buggers > Do I really have 5G there which will be depleted soon and there's > nothing I can do to help it? > If not, how come anyone trusts df output at all when it can report > almost-empty fs to be almost-full? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
