----- Original Message ----- From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at lubik.ca> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:37:31 AM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane Subject: [CentOS] HDD usage oddity Hi, 2 of my Centos4 servers are showing weird behavior. [root at server1 ~]# du -sh /var/ 1.8G /var/ [root at server1 ~]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 4.3G 3.9G 181M 96% /var [root at server2 var]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 2.9G 2.7G 0 100% /var [root at server2 var]# du -sh /var/ 1.6G /var/ du seems to be reporting the right size Anyone seeing this? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Did you recently tidy up /var by deleting some files ? I think I've seen this sort of behaviour when you, for example, move and compress /var/log/messages without restarting syslog. It would seem that the storage isn't freed up until any process using it is restarted. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071122/2e2f321d/attachment-0005.html>