[PLUG] Out of space?

Matt Alexander lug at phxlinux.org
Thu Jun 24 11:04:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Michael Montagne wrote:

> I started having some troubles with KDE and discovered that my home
> partition is out of disk space.  I found a file that was 2.5G and
> deleted figuring that was the issue.  But this morning the problem
> remains.  "df" tells me that I have  3045736 bytes used but "du
> --max-depth=1" tells me my entire home directory is only 6.0M.  A
> "find . -size +1000 -print" only reveals two files that are barely
> over 1M.  I'm using reiserfs.  Could there be another problem of some
> sort?

Do you know if a particular process was writing to that 2.5G file?
Perhaps the OS still thinks the file is open...






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