Re: Who is using up my root partition?

["Pedro Sanchez" <psanchez@nortelnetworks.com>]

No way,

This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just
rebooted and loaded "linux single" and I get exactly the same, / is full
but du only reports 8MB being used.

I'm puzzled here :(

-- 
Pedro I. Sanchez


Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> 
> On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files
> > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to
> > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used.
> >
> > I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and
> > it says that it is using less than 8 MB out of about 50 MB. So, why is
> > that df says something different from du?
> >
> > I'd appreciate any hint. The machine is running slink with kernel
> > 2.0.36.
> 
> Maybe there's a process with an open filehandle somewhere?  Try
> 
>   fuser -m /
> 
> to get a list of pids that are using root... perhaps one of them has a
> big open file that you've removed, but whose space won't be reclaimed
> until the process closes the filehandle.