Messages in this thread | | | From | Rolf Eike Beer <> | Subject | Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:17 +0200 |
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James Ausmus wrote: > Since updating my laptop to 2.6.23, occasionally all of my free disk > space on my root partition will just go away, with no files accounting > for the space, with no odd messages in dmesg or my syslog. If I > reboot, I immediately have the proper amount of free space again. Here > is the output of a du -sx * on /, and the output of the df command > when the problem is occuring, followed by the same info after a fresh > reboot (literally just did the command in the failed state, then > immediately rebooted and ran the same commands again) - any thoughts > as to what might be happening?
The file that eats up the memory is still opened by a process, but deleted.
HTH
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