A possibility is some program has an open filehandle to some file that
another process has deleted. It won't go away until the other program
closes it, or quits.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Ghost 113Mb?
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
>: Have you done a filesystem check?
>
> Well, I did one when I first noticed the drop in space a while
> back and it didn't come up with anything. However, I just did one again
> after bringing the server down, low and behold, a ton of errors came up
> this time.
>
> Okay, so those are now fixed, however, drive errors don't explain
> how every monday, at the same time, like clockwork, that amount of space
> would just magically be reclaimed. Like I first pointed out, my logrotate
> runs at 4am, and that runs with no problems or errors. I just went
> through several weeks of old logs and they're all okay. And I've once
> again scanned every single crontask and at task running, and there's none
> that runs at that specific time.
>
> So, drive errors can be one cause, but what's the explanation for
> the timely fashion in which it happens? It's roughly the same exact
> amount of ghost data, every monday, around 9:45 in the morning.
>
> And yes, before you ask, I did check for hacked programs, and/or a
> breakin. And unless several utilities are lying to me, I'm pretty sure
> that's not the problem.
>
> AMK4
>
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