[Fwd: RHEL connundrum with df and du]

[Jerry Yu]

I believe he checked already that since he referred to the pertinent Redhat
KB article.

On 11/6/06, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
>
> You might have deleted files.
>   # lsof | grep deleted
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hs=KY7&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.m
> ozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=deleted+files+du+df+lsof&btnG=Search
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> --
> Michael
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> > [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
> > Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
> > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:14 PM
> > To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> > Cc: haven at thehavennet.org.uk
> > Subject: [Fwd: RHEL connundrum with df and du]
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> > - -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RHEL connundrum with df and du
> > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:13:34 -0000 (UTC)
> > From: Simon Alman <haven at thehavennet.org.uk>
> > Reply-To: haven at thehavennet.org.uk
> > To: ext3-users at redhat.com
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I am having an issue with disk space and since it is
> > happening using an
> > ext3 formatted partition I felt that this would be the most
> > appropriate list to post to.
> >
> > The problem is this; I have access to two RHEL systems (one
> > running RHEL3 and one running RHEL4). Both are in the same
> > company and both exhibit the same problem that I have not
> > seen anywhere else before.
> >
> > Both have full / partitions. df shows this to be the case so
> > it must be true ... right ?
> >
> > Well du disagrees, on one system with a full 20GB / parition
> > that df shows to be full, df can only find 3.6GB of files.
> >
> > So off to the redhat FAQ I went and found this:
> > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_35_5209.shtm
> >
> > Great that explains the problem precisely ... except it
> > didn't help. No processes were holding large deleted files in
> > a locked state.
> >
> > So I looked at inodes thinking that they may have all been used up ...
> > they haven't df shows only 5% inode usage.
> >
> > I forced an fsck run on the partition on reboot and neither
> > this nor the reboot helped, fsck shows clean and after the
> > reboot things were still broken.
> >
> > So I'm sat here trying to explain to the client why their 5k
> > worth of dell server is currently no much use to them (I
> > can't install anything on it due to the space issue ...).
> >
> > Has anyone come across anything similar before ? I've worked
> > with linux for six years and this is a new one on me ... and
> > twice in the same company. I suspect major kernel b0rkage
> > since both systems use Dell's RHEL build for the specific
> > model of server but proving it is beyond me right now.
> >
> > Any help/advice would be very gratefully appreciated.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Simon Alman
> >
> >
> >
> >
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