I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling
disk usage on a partition.
du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB:
$ du -shL /usr
5.9G/usr
However, df shows:
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1f 47G 43G131M 100%/usr
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Jamie Penman-Smithson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling
disk usage on a partition.
du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB:
$ du -shL /usr
5.9G/usr
However, df shows:
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
Bill Moran wrote:
If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that
have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e.
file descriptors).
You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles
that had been deleted but Apache didn't
Peter Boosten wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that
have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e.
file descriptors).
You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles
that had been
