I agree with Jimmy.. 20 Gig is a huge amount of space.. god only knows what got trashed.
dan On 02 16, 11, at 10:53 AM, Jimmy Lim wrote: > You shouldn't rebooted it. > > There are times that a deleted/moved/archived etc are still being > used by a user/process and the file/s are still open leaving the > inode exist in fs. > > The best practice for this is to make sure that the files you are > moving/deleting/archiving is not being used. > > To check, run lsof on the partition, if there are still open files, > kill it and perform housekeeping. > > Hope this help. > > Jimmy > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr > <bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com > > wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr > <bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so there's close to 20GB unaccounted for. Has anyone experience > with > > something like this? any hints? > > Never mind, solved. I just rebooted. Likely some process had created > some huge file, the files had been removed and then something that > still had open handles to those files didn't exit. Rebooting killed > all processes, so the inodes could be freed > and df and du now agree. > > I still don't know what was doing that, but I'm ok with that for now. > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com > bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com bopolissi...@gmail.com > > Even Tom Lane said: "Or, if you're worried > about actions from functions, use a trigger > to do the logging. There are approximately > no cases where a rule is really better than > a trigger :-( " > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
