[ale] Re: 1/3 full disk, but it is full?

darjo at arches.uga.edu darjo at arches.uga.edu
Tue Jul 10 09:15:08 EDT 2001


I've seen this a lot of times when files are deleted from a running process 
such as syslog.  Restart all the processes that access the partition and see 
if that helps.

Clint Ricker
System Administrator
NorthEast Georgia Internet Acess 


> Anyone ever seen this?  I have a disk partition that claims to be full
> when I run df on it. 
> 
> [zap at zapstation /Assets]$ df -h .
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8              26G   26G  1.9M 100% /Assets 
> 
> But when I run du it is less than 1/3 full! 
> 
> [zap at zapstation /Assets]$ du -hs .
> 8.0G    . 
> 
> It's a reiserfs file system with kernel 2.4.3.   
> 
> I'm very confused. 
> 
> --Michael
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