[ale] Weird filesystem behavior

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Has the system been up for long?  Is something creating large files in /tmp 
and then removing them?  

Does the problem persist through a reboot?

What filesystem are  you useing?  I've seen this with a very old version of 
reiserfs.

--Michael

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 04:11 pm, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> My server is reporting the following from df:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5             9.8G  9.6G     0 100% /
> /dev/sda2             152M   22M  122M  16% /boot
> none                  1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda3             9.7G   36M  9.1G   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda7             9.8G  2.2G  7.2G  23% /usr
> /dev/sda6             9.8G  158M  9.1G   2% /var
> /dev/sda9             497G  211M  471G   1% /mnt/backup
> /dev/sdb3             941G  175G  718G  20% /bio1
>
> But this from du -sh * at /:
> /]# du -sh *
> 4.0k    InstallSummary.htm
> 5.7M    bin
> 175G   bio1
> 5.8M    boot
> 4.0k    common
> 356k    dev
> 9.4M    etc
> 0       home
> 4.0k    initrd
> 12k     ks.cfg
> 111M    lib
> 16k     lost+found
> 4.0k    misc
> 179M    mnt
> 129M    opt
> du: `proc/4335/fd/3': No such file or directory
> 0       proc
> 2.9M    root
> 9.5M    sbin
> 3.2M    tmp
> 2.2G    usr
> 126M    var
>
> I don't see 9.6 GB being used.  I cannot find any hidden files, and this
> server's twin doesn't have this problem.  Any thoughts?  The next step
> I'm going to take is to boot off CD and to an 'ls', 'du', and 'df'.
>
> TIA!

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