shlomo solomon wrote:
I´m getting disk full messages on /var. According to df, the / partition
(/dev/sda1) is full, but du shows about 90% free space. Kdirstat also shows
90% free. I tried booting from a live CD and the partition is only about 10%
full.
Any ideas what´s going on here and how to fix it?
Was the partition still full after you rebooted the device?
df gives data on how much space is actually in use. du, on the other
hand, only reports space that is reachable from the directory structure.
If, for example, you had a program that kept a huge file open, but
unlinked from the file system, that would completely explain the
scenario you report.
Of course, if that's the case, the reboot you did in order to run the
live CD should have freed that space, and so you should see the problem
resolved by now.
If the problem persist (i.e. - disk is full from the system but free
from live CD), run lsof to check who is keeping files open on the partition.
Shachar
here´s a partial listing for df:
[solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15G 15G 40M 100% /
/dev/sda6 495M 47M 448M 10% /boot
and here´s a partial listing for du:
[solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ du -x -c /
14M /bin
0 /dev
4.0K /etc/hp
<< snip snip snip >>
512 /data4-music
1.3G /
1.3G total
--
Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com
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