Strange Out of disk space

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:45:37PM +0400, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Look at this:
> 
> /dev/da0s1f 104164493 104061031 -8229697   109%    /usr
> 
> but
> du -k -d1 /usr
> gives a lot less (about 20GB).
> 
> My guess is that something has mmap-ed a HUGE chunk of
> disk space. If I reboot the space is freed.

Much more likely is that some program has deleted a large file, 
while still holding it open.  Usual suspect is some kind of log file,
or temporary file.


> 
> The question is how can i sees what process mmaped how much
> space and where?
> 
> 



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