Mystery of increasing disk usage

[Peter Boosten]

Peter Boosten wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that
>> have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e.
>> file descriptors).
>>
> You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles
> that had been deleted but Apache didn't know about that...
> 

A solution might be searching with fstat or lsof...

Peter
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