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Re: system gobbles disk space



On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:42:41AM CEST, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> said:
> Hi,
> 
> For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space
> overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files.
> 
> If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume.
> 
> How can I determine what is eating the space?

A possibility is that you have processes writing into deleted files. You can see them with lsof +L1 (as root)


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