[afnog] Server reporting wrong partition size
Davidson Thaba
dthaba at ke.uu.net
Thu Jul 20 17:05:30 EAT 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 14:33 +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> You may be able to find the culprit using 'fuser' or 'lsof':
>
> fuser -v -m /usr
>
> (look for processes with 'f' in the ACCESS column, although note that
> many programs to legitimately hold open files under /usr)
> It will be hard to tell what the file was, because at this stage all
> you will see is the inode number. However, you may be able to identify
> a suspect process and kill or restart it. Or for simplicity you can
> just reboot.
I rebooted and now seems fine. Din't have the opportunity to check it
out with fuser or lsof. The other thing that i noticed is that the %used
had been progressively growing for over a month - hadn't looked at the
servers disk space utilization graph for some time :(
Thanks for the suggestions.
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/rd/c0d0p3 793604 209996 542644 28% /
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 101086 17366 78501 19% /boot
/dev/shm 647436 0 647436 0% /dev/shm
/dev/rd/c0d0p5 2972236 88956 2729864 4% /home
/dev/rd/c0d0p2 2972268 632804 2186044 23% /usr
/dev/rd/c0d0p7 25038996 4154132 19592440 18% /var
./davidson
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