Hi Chandran, On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Chandran Manikandan <tech2mani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have running Centos 6.5 32 bit machine. > This machine is running qmailtoaster packages and mailbox size is 385 GB. > > if i run the df -h command it show 385 GB out of 1TB > > I have run the same command today suddenly shows 576 GB out of 1 TB. > > I didn't update any bulk file and mail transaction is not very high. > > How do i check this issue and fix it. > > how do i find out and why suddenly showing this much of increasing the size > of hard disk. > > Could anyone help me > Basically, df reads the superblock only and trusts it completely. du reads each object and sums them up. Any running process can keep a deleted file open. This means the space will still be reserved and seen by df, but since du will no longer see a reference to that file in the directory tree, it cannot see those reserved blocks. Try to see the number of open file which could be causing the problem. --Regards Ashishkumar S. Yadav _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos