What uses these 50 GB?
Roland Olbricht
roland.olbricht at gmx.de
Sun Aug 17 21:53:32 UTC 2014
Hello Eric,
> Ok, pretty standard, and it appears that you mkfs'd it in april,
> mounted it, and have never unmounted it. (Nor has it ever crashed,
> apparently).
>
> Also, the last line above shows that there is at least one orphan
> inode, meaning it's open but unlinked. Blocks aren't freed
> until it's closed; that may be where all the space is.
Thank you. That was indeed the cause of the problem. There was a single
file that has been deleted some month ago, but the process which kept it
open was still alive.
I'll add a check for open deleted files to my checklist.
Best regards,
Roland
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