Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition
On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> writes:
>
>> On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l
>>
>> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l
>> 3
>> #
>>
>> But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :)
>> I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really be a lot of those.
>>
>> But it's a good point, Sven, because there still might be some issue
>> that is keeping even 1 of those in some extended length, but deleted,
>> file. Maybe not, though, on '/'.
>>
>> I'll reboot the system at the end of the day. Though it's a weekend,
>> at the moment it'll be in use for a couple of hours, yet.
>
> Another possibility to look into is that there might be files under your
> mount points. For example, you might have saved files under /usr on
> your root filesystem, but later mounted a /usr filesystem on top without
> deleting the files in the original filesystem.
Indeed.
> The only way that I know
> of to check that would be to check one filesystem at a time in single
> user mode, or from a live CD.
Huh, why that? A simple "mount --bind / /mnt" makes all those files
visible under /mnt, and you can delete them at your leisure.
Cheers,
Sven
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