On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone matt.iavarone@gmail.com wrote:
This is typical. There were probably files deleted from the file system that are still in use by a process. Restarting the process will release the files and df and du will jive.
That argument only holds until you reach the point in the email where he said this: > I rebooted on the CentOS v4.8 CD #1, started "linux rescue" :
After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue here. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I guess I glossed over that part. It could be related to mysql (the storage engine, metadata). du may not be able to parse that information(?).