I'm assuming this wasn't meant to go to me only. :-)

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:06, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Thanks. (everyone)
> Rebooting solved the problem (after removing those files etc.)...
> we had to reboot anyway... things were going wrong left right and centre!
> But it's all
> good now!!
> 
> Finally back to some real work!  :|
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Peter Hardy
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 8:15 PM
> To: Sydney Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Mail cache
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > the logs came from /raid/ssl/.....  so it's definitely on 'sda1' right?
> > 4.1G still taken up!  weird...
> > does 'rm' completely remove it? I should think so... it just makes the
> > i-node free so it's as good as gone right?  :(
> 
> Could be one of two things I can think of.
> - The file system usually reserves space for the root user, that's
> unavailable to regular users.  You can check the reserved block count
> using dumpe2fs, and change it with tune2fs.  If root is writing those
> files, then it will continue to write to them after df is reporting 100%
> usage, and removing them may not get you back below 100%.  I think
> you'll find, if you run df without the -h option, different figures for
> the total size and used space on the full partition, indicating this is
> the cause.
> 
> - Some process or other may be holding the deleted files open still.  If
> a file is open when it is deleted, then its directory entries are
> deleted, but the file is still hanging around, and the space won't be
> freed until the program using that file closes it.  access_log is an
> apache log file, right?  If so, try stopping and starting apache and
> seeing if that clears it up.
> 
> --
> Pete
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