Probably deleted a log file but firgot to restart syslog. -- Kelsey Hartigan Go SM Prime Holdings, Inc.
On Feb 16, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Dan Sweeney <dswee...@noaccess.com> wrote: > I agree with Jimmy.. 20 Gig is a huge amount of space.. god only knows > what got trashed. > > dan > On 02 16, 11, at 10:53 AM, Jimmy Lim wrote: > >> You shouldn't rebooted it. >> >> There are times that a deleted/moved/archived etc are still being >> used by a user/process and the file/s are still open leaving the >> inode exist in fs. >> >> The best practice for this is to make sure that the files you are >> moving/deleting/archiving is not being used. >> >> To check, run lsof on the partition, if there are still open files, >> kill it and perform housekeeping. >> >> Hope this help. >> >> Jimmy >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr >> <bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr >> <bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> so there's close to 20GB unaccounted for. Has anyone experience >> with >>> something like this? any hints? >> >> Never mind, solved. I just rebooted. Likely some process had created >> some huge file, the files had been removed and then something that >> still had open handles to those files didn't exit. Rebooting killed >> all processes, so the inodes could be freed >> and df and du now agree. >> >> I still don't know what was doing that, but I'm ok with that for now. >> >> tiger >> >> -- >> Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com >> bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com bopolissi...@gmail.com >> >> Even Tom Lane said: "Or, if you're worried >> about actions from functions, use a trigger >> to do the logging. There are approximately >> no cases where a rule is really better than >> a trigger :-( " >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
