[linux-lvm] difference in space used
Greg Hanson
greg at perusion.com
Sat May 19 02:12:57 UTC 2007
Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:04:35PM -0700, Greg Hanson wrote:
>
>> [root at newbox1 ~]# du /log/
>> 16 /log/lost+found
>> 23696 /log/httpd
>> 23716 /log/
>>
>> Any ideas as to what could be going on?
>>
>
> An unlinked file isn't actually deleted until all file handles to it
> are closed. Since this is your log partition, you probably have
> broken log rotation script. I bet its moving the files to a new name,
> but the logging process isn't closing and reopening the logfile.
>
> These files that are unlinked but still have open handles to them
> continue to consume their usual amount of disk space. FWIW, I have
> seen this issue particularly noticably with MySQL when the query log
> is enabled, but that's a wild guess...
>
>
Thanks for the input Ross. You are exactly on target. I found another
post on another forum with regards to this,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2002/05/msg00046.html
and started examining the log rotate scripts. There was an error in the
path in the HUP line to restart apache, and there were many deleted log
files laying around.
this command
lsof | grep deleted
confirmed that there were several occurrences of error and access logs hanging in there.
Did an apachectl stop and start and things went back to normal.
Thank you so much for the response!
Greg
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