On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:43:07 +0200,
Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>We have several servers here using XFS filesystems ; they work
>perfectly well, except for one of them, reporting a wrong filesystem
>space usage. It seems that this filesystem grows everyday since its
>installation last July. No reboot has been done since 54 days (and I
>would not like to do one, as it is an important production server).
>
>Here are the details:
>
>Linux olan 2.4.21-xfs-olan #1 Wed Jul 30 09:29:56 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
>
>olan:/var# df .
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda4 5750784 4388576 1362208 77% /var
>
>olan:/var# du -s
>2692296 .
There is a file on /var that has been deleted (does not appear in du)
but is still being written to by a program so it still occupies disk
space (appears in df). Not an XFS problem, this occurs with all file
systems. 'lsof /var' will tell you which files are open on /var.
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