It's quite possible that a large file was unlinked, but not closed, so space was being held by it. After the reboot, that file would have been closed, freeing the space.
I've seen this happen before, so it seems likely. Eric Rossman Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/25/2004 01:03:47 PM: > On one of our servers we run the Ext3 file system and today a DF command > showed the root filesystem was 96% full. I ran some FIND commands > looking for files updated today and "large". My goal was to find some > logs that I could maybe erase. What's interesting is that after a > graceful shutdown/reboot the same file space shows 72% full. (It's a > 3390-3, so this is a significant change in the amount of free blocks.) > What's more, another FIND command doesn't locate a newly-closed large > file which would explain such a big discrepancy. > > Any ideas on what's going on here? > > William P. Scully > Senior Systems Programmer > Computer Associates International, Inc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
