[Soekris] MFS filling up on net4521

Chris Babcock cbabcock at utiliware.com
Mon Jun 16 14:09:08 UTC 2008


Brian Candler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:20:23PM +0200, Bill Maas wrote:
>> A significant part of it
>> does not seem to be accounted for as actual disk usage:
>>
>> df -h:
>> Filesystem  1K-blocks  Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> mfs:22103   7.7M       5.4M  1.9M    74%    /var
>>
>> du -sh /var:
>> 1.8M    /var/
>>
>> After a reboot it's back to a sane value (~20M). Leaks? Allocation
>> issues?
> 
> Something holding one of those files open in /var?

So a quick check of LSOF on on of my systems _does_ show deleted files, 
but only in the full listing, not with the +D option.

LSOF output line shows:
dd        16230 cbabcock    1w      REG        9,2 23444104      48146 
/home/cbabcock/testfile.txt (deleted)


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