[ale] strange issue with disc space

[Stephen R. Blevins]

Your DB reported this?  What DBMS are you using?  Does it support "raw 
partitions," as ORACLE does.  In my previous experience in the "UNIX on 
RISC" world, the du command only reported data written through the file 
system. YMMV

Stephen R. Blevins
srblevi at worldnet.att.net


Chuck Payne 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
> 
>