On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:38:55PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:12:54AM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
centos2@foxengines.net wrote:
It's not working, I haven't been able to identify the files. They
aren't
there. All attempts to measure disk usage of / by files shows that the disk usage is only a percentage of available space and that there should be space available.
Sparse files? How are you determining how much free space you have?
Thanks for your response.
I didn't attempt to find sparse files specifically but there were no files (or dot-files) at the top level of / that contained any significant data.
There sum of the sizes of all of the directories at the top level of / reported by du did not match the amount of disk space used at the time of the problem. I don't have a transcript of that session but I was using commands like:
find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type d | while read; do du -shx $d; done
What does
lsof | grep DEL
show?
Well, it doesn't show anything now because I ran out of time to troubleshoot and had to reboot the computer which eliminated whatever was using the space. I didn't look for this pattern but I did look for "deleted". I will add this pattern to the list for the next time the problem occurs. I was hoping I would get some responses like this--thanks!