[CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

[Chandran Manikandan]

Hi John,
Am currently running dos mode not graphical mode.
Could you have any other method.

Hi Ashish,
You are correct.
qmailtoaster backup file which was around 184 GB in backup.gz type and i
have removed .bz2 type file with the same backup/mailbkup directory.

After removed .bz2 file it's gone backup.gz also which was 184 GB file.
I have run this command locate .gz but couldn't find out it.

how do i see the open files.

Could you help me to find out this file or any soln.


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Ashish Yadav <gwalashish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chandran,
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Chandran Manikandan <tech2mani at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have running Centos 6.5 32 bit machine.
> > This machine is running qmailtoaster packages and mailbox size is 385 GB.
> >
> > if i run the df -h command it show 385 GB out of 1TB
> >
> > I have run the same command today suddenly shows 576 GB out of 1 TB.
> >
> > I didn't update any bulk file and mail transaction is not very high.
> >
> > How do i check this issue and fix it.
> >
> > how do i find out and why suddenly showing this much of increasing the
> size
> > of hard disk.
> >
> > Could anyone help me
> >
>
> Basically, df reads the superblock only and trusts it completely.  du reads
> each object and sums them up.
>
> Any running process can keep a deleted file open. This means the space will
> still be reserved and seen by df,
> but since du will no longer see a reference to that file in the directory
> tree, it cannot see those reserved blocks.
>
> Try to see the number of open file which could be causing the problem.
>
>
> --Regards
> Ashishkumar S. Yadav
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