[SLL] fs still full after rm'ing files, killing ps that held them open
Phil Mocek
pmocek-sll at mocek.org
Tue Feb 19 11:51:29 PST 2008
My /var/log file system filled. I found that a daemon had some big
files in there. I moved them to another file system, then
restarted the daemon.
df still reports the /var/log file system full. du reports what I
expect to see: only about 20% full. Attempts to create a new
file there as superuser result in the error, "write error: No
space left on device."
How can I find out what is tying up the other 80%?
I suspect that I should have stopped the daemon before unlinking
the files it had open, but I would expect that killing its process
would have released the space those files were using.
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Phil Mocek
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