On 01/14/2010 09:20 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2010/1/13 William John Murray<bill.murray@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Hello all, >> Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk >> partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: >> >> /dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% / >> >> However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it >> add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various >> others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under >> liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used. >> So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is >> out of space. >> Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean. > > I often find that it's files which are deleted, that are still held > open. e.g. rotated logs where the owning process has not been > reloaded. > > Try: > > lsof | grep deleted > > That should show up and deleted files still open. > > -- > Sam Can you delete these files and If so,how david -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
