"Leaking" disk space

[Dan Thomas]

> Have you used fstat to identify the big growing file which is taking up the space, and which process has the file open?

It's not an unlinked file. I've tried using fstat and lsof to identify
it, and there's no inodes with zero links or that don't have a
matching file on disk.

Dan

On 20 March 2013 23:08, Daniel O'Callaghan <danny at clari.net.au> wrote:
> On 21/03/2013 3:55 AM, Dan Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Stopping Postgres doesn't fix it, but rebooting does which points at
>
> Have you used fstat to identify the big growing file which is taking up the
> space, and which process has the file open?
> A file which has been unlinked from all directories won't be seen by du, but
> it does not free disk space until no process has it open.
>
> USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W
> root     syslogd    47648    8 /        4317027 -rw-r--r--   19776  w
> root     syslogd    47648    9 /        4317041 -rw-------      63  w
>
> That might help to track it down.
>
> Danny
>
>
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