bugs with disk space
Jason Andresen
jandrese at mitre.org
Wed Jun 9 17:43:06 GMT 2004
Jose Hidalgo Herrera wrote:
> There is something wrong here:
>
> srv0:~# uname -r
> 4.9-RELEASE-p4
>
> srv0:~# df -hi /
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 126M 125M -8.9M 108% 1364 14890 8% /
>
> srv0:~# du -shx /
> 36M /
>
> The operating system complains about free space, but I'm only using 36M,
> while the df says that I'm using 125M, the inodes are not the problem.
You probably have programs accessing files on / that have been unlinked.
Once the process terminates (or closes the file descriptor) you will
get your space back. If you deleted a large temp file or log file to
free up space, try restarting the process that created the temp/log file.
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