In my experience, if nothing shows up in lsof, there's no process (zombie or otherwise) holding it. Any chance you have something symlinked to that partition which might throw off your grep on lsof?
-P On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Bruce W. Martin <marti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > > > IS there some sort of reserve/overhead with the array or the filesystem > on it? > > No. > > > Is it being replicated somewhere? > > NO. > > > And, do you have a whole lot of small files or a lesser number of huge > files? > > It is mostly small files. > > Paul, Thanks for that thought but there are plenty of inodes available on > that partition. I deleted a large number of files last week but the space > showed free right afterwards. I ran lsof but nothing on that partition > showed up in the list. > > Brian, I have a sneaking suspicion that you may be correct about the > running or zombie processes, I will have to look into that further. > This partition is served up to about a dozen machines so I suspect that i > will have to look at processes on each of the other machines to find if > there is a culprit down this path. > > Thanks for the suggestions. Any other thoughts? > > Bruce > > > > > > From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Brian H. Ward > > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 3:46 PM > > To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Re: [nlug] df says partition is full but du numbers don't add up > > > > unlinked (deleted) files which are still held open by running (or even > zombie) processes will keep disk space from being returned to df, but won't > show up in du. > > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Bruce W. Martin <marti...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have a 4.6TB partition on a RAID array that is reporting as 100% full > but running du on the partition only shows 3.5TB worth of files. What gives? > Is there some way to fix this short of rebooting? I am not sure of the right > question to pose to do a proper google search for this. > > > > > > Bruce > > -- > > Bruce W. Martin, KQ4TV > > Trustee for NT4UX > > Nashville Linux User Group - Amateur Radio- Special Interest Group > > NLUG-AR-SIG > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > > > > > -- > > Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time > meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we > cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering > for them. - Dalai Lama > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
