[PLUG] Out of space?

[alan]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:

> 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...

If it is, "lsof" should give you an idea what process still has it open.