CentOS - Apr 2016 - Suddenly increased my hard disk

On Mon, April 18, 2016 1:02 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 04/17/2016 09:27 PM, Chandran Manikandan wrote:
>> Thanks for your help.
>> I have tried above your commands
>> I couldn't see that size of the file.
>
> What commands?  I suggested that you look for deleted but open files
> using:
> # ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep '(deleted)'
>
> If you see any, you won't see their size.  All you'll really see is
the
> PID of the process that has the files open, and in that case, you must
> terminate that process.
>
> Do you see deleted files when you run the command above?
lsof command may be of help either...

Valeri

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On 04/18/16 13:07, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Mon, April 18, 2016 1:02 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> On 04/17/2016 09:27 PM, Chandran Manikandan wrote:
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> I have tried above your commands
>>> I couldn't see that size of the file.
>>
>> What commands?  I suggested that you look for deleted but open files
>> using:
>> # ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep '(deleted)'
>>
>> If you see any, you won't see their size.  All you'll really
see is the
>> PID of the process that has the files open, and in that case, you must
>> terminate that process.
>>
>> Do you see deleted files when you run the command above?
>
> lsof command may be of help either...
>
===>
lsof | grep deleted would work better. ;-)


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On 04/18/2016 11:17 AM, g wrote:
> lsof | grep deleted would work better.
Better how?

lsof hasn't always been installed by default, while /proc is pretty 
reliably available.