--On February 7, 2006 2:26:10 PM -0500 Peter Dumpert <pdumpert@innovativebusiness.net> wrote:
I know I can probably just unmount, run e2fsck and get the space back. But I would like to know what the problem is first. Has anyone else seen something like this? All other mentions I found in google concerned single incidents and usually involved a power outage. I could not find a mention of an ongoing "disk leak".
This is almost universally caused by deleted-but-still-open-by-a-process files. Typically logs. As martin noted, use lsof to look for things, fuser might also offer clues.--
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