[Fedora] Re: gorged harddrive
charles f. zeitler
cfzeitler at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 1 03:23:37 UTC 2008
--- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:
> charles f. zeitler wrote:
> > 883393808812 torrents_isos/data
> >
> > somethings wrong with t*s/data ....
> >
> This is very indicative of an open file handle not having been
> closed properly, and even after removing the physical file, the drive
> structure still believes it's there.
>
> In my case, that was a syslog issue where I deleted a file, but its
> handle remained open. Restarting syslog took care of it.
>
> In your case, I would suggest restarting whatever process it is that
> writes to those files on that drive, and failing that, restart the
> computer and force a file check on that drive.
>
thanks for the reply.
i have already tried re-booting & fsck'ing...
might have to resort to more drastic measures...
charles zeitler
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