[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.

-- 
Phil Mocek


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