rsync - Sep 2002 - Disk Space Problems with Rsync.

I have a problem with rsync causing a filesystem to think that it is 100%
used when actually it isn't. A quick reboot will cause the filesystem to go
to about 70%-75% used. Below is the script that I am executing. I am using
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.9-34smp on a 2-processor
i686. Does anyone have any idea on what causes this and how to fix this?



#!/bin/bash
export RSYNC_RSH="ssh"
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/u01/home/piuser/ /u01/home/piuser/ 
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/u01/public/ /u01/public/
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/u01/perform_data/ /u01/perform_data/ 
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/u01/perform_testing/
/u01/perform_testing/ 
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/u01/collect_setup/ /u01/collect_setup/ 
rsync -alz --delete --stats server:/usr/local/ /usr/local/
rsync -alz  --stats server:/u01/var/lib/mysql/ /u01/var/lib/mysql/ 



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On 23 Sep 2002, Bull Barry - bbull <Barry.Bull@acxiom.com>
wrote:
> I have a problem with rsync causing a filesystem to think that it is 100%
> used when actually it isn't. A quick reboot will cause the filesystem
to go
> to about 70%-75% used. Below is the script that I am executing. I am using
> Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.9-34smp on a 2-processor
> i686. Does anyone have any idea on what causes this and how to fix
> this?
There is probably a file (or severral) that has been unlinked by
rsync, but is still open by some other program, and therefore it's
space can't be freed up.  Killing the other relevant program, or
rebooting, frees up the space.

Use lsof to discover what files are open in that directory.

-- 
Martin