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

[Mel Burslan]

If you have deleted or trimmed the logs of an already running process,
the newly freed blocks may not be available in some cases. If you have
done anything like this and if such a process is not mission critical,
just stop it and restart. It may do the magic.

hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> 
> 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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Mel
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