Ext3 users - Jul 2002 - ext3 device reported to be 100% full, but we do not know where?

Hello to everybody here,

We have a strange problem with ext3.  df reports 28 of 30 GB to be used
(rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used.  But with du we can only
find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives).  Where
are the other 17 GB gone?

Thanks
	Michael

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Does your box have any i-nodes available?
Let do the command "df -i".

Thanks.
        H.Morishima


--Michael Hoennig<michael@hostsharing.net> wrote:
>Hello to everybody here,
>
>We have a strange problem with ext3.  df reports 28 of 30 GB to be used
>(rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used.  But with du we can only
>find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives).  Where
>are the other 17 GB gone?
>
>Thanks
>	Michael
>
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On Jul 23, 2002  07:50 +0200, Michael Hoennig wrote:
> We have a strange problem with ext3.  df reports 28 of 30 GB to be used
> (rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used.  But with du we can only
> find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives).  Where
> are the other 17 GB gone?
Either in hidden directories, or files held open but unlinked.  To find
the former, you could try:

find <root> -type d -name ".*" ! -name "."

To find the latter, use "lsof | grep deleted"

Cheers, Andreas
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Hi H.Morishima,
> >We have a strange problem with ext3.  df reports 28 of 30 GB to be used
> >(rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used.  But with du we can only
> >find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives). 
> >Where are the other 17 GB gone?
>
> Does your box have any i-nodes available?
> Let do the command "df -i".
I checked that already, I node usage is virtually nothing:

/dev/sda6            3842720   29759 3812961    1% /var

As I said, mostly large files. 

Thanks 
	Michael

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Hi Andreas,
> > We have a strange problem with ext3.  df reports 28 of 30 GB to be
> > used(rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used.  But with du we can
> > only find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives).
> >  Where are the other 17 GB gone?
> 
> Either in hidden directories, or files held open but unlinked.  To find
> the former, you could try:
> 
> find <root> -type d -name ".*" ! -name "."
du -scm /var would have found that too, right?  I double checked anyway
with find, this is not the cause.
> To find the latter, use "lsof | grep deleted"
none, either :-(

Thanks anyway
	Michael

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