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Posted by gulsnguys, 03-10-2014, 11:56 AM
hi, df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 ext3 444G 350G 72G 84% / tmpfs tmpfs 1.7G 8.0K 1.7G 1% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 1.6G 148K 1.6G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev/shm '/' partition has only 72G available, now once i get into it and run du -sch *, i got this /# du -sch * 5.2M bin 30M boot 0 cdrom 148K dev 3.8M etc 60K home 4.0K in 0 initrd.img 0 initrd.img.old 169M lib 16K lost+found 12K media 4.0K mnt 4.0K opt du: cannot access `proc/31521/task/31521/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `proc/31521/task/31521/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `proc/31521/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `proc/31521/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory 0 proc 112K root 3.7M sbin 4.0K selinux 4.0K srv 0 sys 4.0K tmp 735M usr 12G var 0 vmlinuz 0 vmlinuz.old 13G total Question: This shows only 13G total, but as per this below Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 ext3 444G 350G 72G 84% / I have 444G available ............ where is my other space can somebody help me plz

Posted by fabin, 03-10-2014, 02:38 PM
There might be any locked files which is already removed from server. If you restart the application/service, it will free the file and disk space stats will get refreshed. It can be tricky to find the application. It is possible with lsof. Or a simple reboot will do this.



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