On Monday 01 February 2010, Brian Mathis 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" :
Indeed. At this point I'd start looking at things hiding under mount points. But as the OP seems to have only one filesystem, /, then this will be limited to mount-points for special filesystems (like sys, proc and /dev/shm).
What I'm getting at is that you could have, for example, a 10G file /proc/foo on the actaul /-filesystem. As soon as proc is mounted on /proc this would be invisible.
/Peter
After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue here.