Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense to me. This morning
> one of the leg messages reported that there wasn't any more space left on
> /var. that's ok cause it wasn't any big deal to fix that. what I did have
> a problem with is the difference free space that is being reported by two
> different programs on the system.
>
> df reports it this way:
>
> [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc6 787M 757M 30M 96% /var <-- the critical reading
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ...and du reports it this way:
>
> 469M /var <-- the critical reading
> ...
Someone suggested the blocking factor as the cause for this.
I doubt that your block size is big enough for the effect you are
seeing. I'd guess that some program has a file open on /var, but
the file has been deleted from the directory.
Until the program exits, the space is UNAvailable, but not
*visible* to any program other than the one that has it open.
So, what 288 meg file did you delete that some program still has
open? (Maybe a log file? Probably not a core file ;-)
rc
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