no space left?

Shu Hung (Koala) koala at dg21.com
Tue Oct 26 01:33:35 UTC 2004


I've rebooted serveral times but nothing was changed.

Norman Gaywood:

>There may be a process with a file open, using all the space, that has
>no name in the filesystem. For example, a process that might be out of
>control, writing to /tmp/logfile. The /tmp/logfile grows very large so you
>delete it. The process still has this file open and continues to write
>to it even though the file has no name. du would not show space used by
>this program, df would. To reclaim the space you have to kill the process.
>
>If this is the problem, rebooting will also free the space. But I hate
>to recommend rebooting to fix problems.
>
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