df showing invalid output

[Anish Mathew]

Hi,
Thanks for all the response. Here is couple of outputs
from ls, du and df. I used mv to move the files out of
the directory.

Original Situation---(Previous thread)

I was having 1.4 GB free space in /opt.
This is the ouput of df -h

/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  7.9G  1.4G  85% /opt

I moved around 7.5 GB of data from /opt
I used mv command for that.

But the df -h output is not giving the correct
available space. 
it gives 

/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  5.7G  3.7G  61% /opt


Present Situation.---

Since this is a backup directory cron job copied 2 GB
file to /opt.


The  df -h /opt output shows

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  7.7G  1.7G  82% /opt

This output is wrong but ls and du gives the correct
space usage.

These are the files under /opt.

#ls -lah /opt

total 1.1G
----------
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4.0k Aug  5
00:10 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4.0k Feb 10
22:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4.0k Aug  5
00:10 cvs-repository-backup
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.0G Feb 10
22:13 gb.tgz
drwx------    2 root     root          16k Sep 21 
2003 lost+found

#ls -lh /opt/cvs-repository-backup/
total 2.1G
----------
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4.0k Aug  5
00:10 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4.0k Feb 10
22:05 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.0G Aug  5
00:32 repository_050805.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Mar  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010305.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Apr  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010405.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M May  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010505.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Jun  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010605.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Jul  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010705.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.5M Aug  1
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_010805.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Mar 15
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_150305.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Apr 15
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_150405.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M May 15
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_150505.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Jun 15
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_150605.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.5M Jul 15
01:30 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_150705.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.3M Jun 24
20:58 Serversmb_Conf_Backup_240605.tgz


So ls shows 3.2 GB which is correct.

Now  du -sh /opt output 

3.1G    /opt

This is also correct.




 Since du output shows used space as 3.1 GB i tried to
copy again a file of size 2GB to /opt.. but failed
with no space left on device.

How can i solve this problem.

Regards
Anish
--- "Smith, Albert" <Albert.Smith at genexservices.com>
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Shaw, Marco
> > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:30 PM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: RE: df showing invalid output
> > 
> > > /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  5.7G  3.7G  61% /opt
> > > 
> > > The used space should be around 1.4.. why is
> this descrepancy...
> > 
> > You may have files that are deleted, but still
> have open file 
> > Handles (or something like that).
> > 
> > Look at 'lsof' to help you find the appropriate
> files.  I 
> > can't remember any of the arguments to use right
> now...
> > 
> > Marco
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> If a move was issued then an error would have
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