<div dir="ltr">Dan was right!<br><br>I have openvpn running and its log file had been deleted so it was just writing to memory! <br><br>lsof +L1 found it<br><br>Thanks everyone for your help! <br><br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Dan Rue <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drue@therub.org">drue@therub.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's possible that a process has a huge open file that's been removed<br>
from the file system. Until the process is killed or close()s the file,<br>
it will still consume the space on the actual disk. Maybe something<br>
like lsof can find it, or you could just restart the suspected<br>
processes.<br>
<br>
dan<br>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:01:36AM -0500, Chris Smith wrote:<br>
> There are other symptoms, like users can't start a new session in the web<br>
> app it is running, as it is messing up MySQL..<br>
> It is reporting the space in df...<br>
><br>
> [root@mail ~]# df -h<br>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00<br>
> 130G 129G 0 100% /<br>
> /dev/sda1 99M 24M 71M 26% /boot<br>
> tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm<br>
><br>
</div>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Elvedin Trnjanin <[1]<a href="mailto:trnja001@umn.edu">trnja001@umn.edu</a>><br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Where is it reporting zero available space? Maybe you have a partition<br>
> for read only media such as a DVD and it's misreporting that as lacking<br>
> space.<br>
><br>
> Try `df -h` to get information about your mounted partitions.<br>
><br>
> Chris Smith wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I've got a server reporting zero available HD space, and I believe it<br>
> because the website it isn't working right. However, I can't seem to<br>
> find any files that are huge or taking up this space.<br>
> Below is an output from du * in the root directory. I've also used<br>
> find in a variety of way to find any files bigger than 10meg or so and<br>
> nothing seems to be big enough to begin to take up the whole 130 gig<br>
> drive.. i hope someone has some ideas.. this server is in a remote<br>
> colo too btw<br>
> Thanks in advance!<br>
><br>
> This is an output from du:<br>
><br>
> [root@mail /]# du -sh *<br>
> 8.1M bin<br>
> 19M boot<br>
> 4.0K data<br>
> 96K dev<br>
> 59M etc<br>
> 82M home<br>
> 267M lib<br>
> 21M lib64<br>
> 16K lost+found<br>
> 12K media<br>
> 0 misc<br>
> 8.0K mnt<br>
> 0 net<br>
> 322M opt<br>
> 0 proc<br>
> 124M root<br>
> 26M sbin<br>
> 8.0K selinux<br>
> 8.0K srv<br>
> 0 sys<br>
> 20K tmp<br>
> 3.2G usr<br>
> 636M var<br>
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