on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:44:45PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
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> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> > > In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason,
> >
> > "Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense.
>
> Memory in the sense of storage space, in the hard disk.
>
> > Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or
> > partitions on you hard drive?
> > Did you delete an open file? If you delete a file while another program
> > is writing to it, the space is not reallocated until the writing process
> > is terminated. In this case, you may be able to locate the open process
> > with:
> >
> > - lsof
> > - ps
> >
> > If lsof shows the process, you can kill it. Otherwise, switching to
> > single user mode, or as a last resort, rebooting the system, may reset
> > things.
>
> rebooting did not fix it. That was the first thing I did.
Try the following on each of your mounted partitions, starting at the
mount point:
$ du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n | less
...which will list out your largest directories, with usage sumarized,
in size order. Track down where the storage seems to be going.
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