[ale] strange issue with disc space

[Greg Freemyer]

Wasn't there just a thread about this topic a couple days ago?  Or was
that on a different list?


On 7/30/09, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have a question. Have you ever seen disc space just disappear and
> you were unable to find what is using? One of our DB came to me the
> other day pointed out that one of his rac boxes has filled up
>
>                       2.0G  1.7G  214M  89% /
>                       2.0G   88M  1.8G   5% /tmp
>                      1023M  298M  673M  31% /opt
>                       2.0G  203M  1.7G  11% /home
>                       2.0G  297M  1.6G  16% /archive
>                       2.0G  456M  1.4G  25% /var
>                       4.9G  2.7G  2.0G  59% /usr
>                       2.0G   68M  1.8G   4% /usr/local
>                        40G   12G   26G  32% /u00
>                      122M   32M   84M  28% /boot
>                      7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
> 	             4.0G  118M  3.9G   3% /crs_db
>
> so I started looking into,  but I can't find any file or dir on the
> root partition that eat space. I have  looked at dmesg and don't see
> anything. Oh, we have rebooted the box and the space didn't clear up.
>
>
> Just an fyi, here are things I did look, please feel free to let me
> know what other things I need to check.
>
> alias ducks='du -chs * | sort -rn | head -11'
> find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{
> print $NF ": " $5 }'  | sort -nrk 2,2
> lsof -a +L1
>
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