On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:54:54 +0200 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Salut, > > here you see my diskspace made with df -h , the problem is my /root it > shows me only 18M available, but with 'du' it > must be about 300 M, I made it the 'du' also for the other partitions > and it is OK. > Has anybody a hint for me. > I logged in with a Knoppix and can't find nothing which explaint the > lost 30M. > [snip] >From the ext3 FAQ (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html): Q: 'df' command says partition is full, while 'du' reports free space Theodore Ts'o, the ext2 developer, said: The standard cause for this is some user process keeping a deleted file open. When this happens, the space is not visible via 'du', since the file is no longer visible in the directory tree. However, the space is still used by the file until it is deallocated, and that can only happen once the last process which has the file open either closes its file descriptor to the file, or the process exits. You can use the lsof program to try to find which process is keeping an open file. Usually it's some log file, or some large data base file which gets rotated out, but some older process are still keeping the log file open. HTH, A> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
