On 01/13/2010 05:54 PM, david walcroft wrote: > 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 Generally, rebooting will get rid of them, if they are open but deleted. -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
