[SOLVED] df and du don't seem to agree ?

[David Cho-Lerat <david.lerat@asterion.fr>]

a restart of the ProFTPD daemon reduced the amount of used space
on /var from 90% to 34%. Phew ! Thanks all for your help, this is
one command I'll definitely use again :

lsof | grep "deleted"



Le 22/08/2012 10:13, David Cho-Lerat a écrit :
> > Google returns:
> >
> > http://superuser.com/questions/289678/du-vs-df-output
>
> oops, should have had a look :P
>
> this pointed me to :
>
> server:~# lsof | grep "/var" | grep "deleted"
> smbd       2926       root    2w      REG      254,1       2665      
> 65406 /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1 (deleted)
> smbd       2926       root    6w      REG      254,1       2665      
> 65406 /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1 (deleted)
> proftpd   14060     nobody    7w      REG      254,1 2807896675      
> 49066 /var/log/proftpd/proftpd-trace.log (deleted)
> pbms-pbhi9:~# ls -Falh /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1 
> /var/log/proftpd/proftpd-trace.log
> ls: cannot access /var/log/samba/log.smbd.1: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /var/log/proftpd/proftpd-trace.log: No such file or 
> directory
>
> Yes ! Looks like they just need to restart the ProFTPD and Samba 
> services to free up around 2.7G !
>
> Thanks all, this was very helpful !
>
> David.

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