At 9:05 AM +0100 6/13/06, Paul Howarth wrote: >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. Could 10% be the root reservation? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
