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2006 Nov 02
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RHEL connundrum with df and du
...lse before.
Both have full / partitions. df shows this to be the case so it must be
true ... right ?
Well du disagrees, on one system with a full 20GB / parition that df shows
to be full, df can only find 3.6GB of files.
So off to the redhat FAQ I went and found this:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_35_5209.shtm
Great that explains the problem precisely ... except it didn't help. No
processes were holding large deleted files in a locked state.
So I looked at inodes thinking that they may have all been used up ...
they haven't df shows only 5% inode usage.
I forced an fsck run on the partiti...