On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 08:13 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > having an FC4 server and problems with /tmp: > > df -m says, that /tmp 100% full. But if going to /tmp, calling "du -sm *" and summarizing all sizes > gives a huge difference against the df command (the sum is about 10% of the df-value). > > Remark: there are no .-files in /tmp so "du -sm *" fits all files in /tmp. > > Can somebody explain this behaviour? You probably have a process running that has a a large open file in /tmp that has been deleted. The disk space is not recovered for use by other processes until the file is closed. Deleting an open temp file is a fairly common technique - it prevents other processes getting any access to the file. Paul.
