It is actually worst than that, the partition is 4.5TB. It takes about 4-6 hours to do an fsck on a partition and that partition is actually one of the smaller ones of the 6 data partitions on this file server.
Bruce On Jun 20, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Mark J Bailey wrote: > Actually, if your weekend users literally ran it out of space, the freelist > may be out of whack. So, fsck might be a sensible thing, but I would try > Brian and Paul less involved ideas first. Fsck on 1.5TB ext3 is going to > take a while :) > > Mark J Bailey <m...@jobsoft.com> wrote: > > Is dmesg showing ext3 errors? Maybe time for fsck? > > "Paul W. Roach III" <p...@isaroach.com> wrote: > > Finally, (sorry, stream of conciousness kicks in once I send an email, and I > think of something else) what sort of workload is the server under? DB, > File Server, App Server? Oracle behaves differently than Weblogic with > regard to holding space, under certain circumstances. > > -P > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Paul W. Roach III <p...@isaroach.com>wrote: > >> 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. 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