<div dir="ltr">Have you tried running df --sync ? Sometimes the stats that df uses are not correct and need to be updated.<div><br></div><div style>I have experienced this issue before but I can't for the life of me remember how it was fixed. I'll post again if it comes to me.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Karl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 April 2013 09:13, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">danattwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">hi all hopefully someone can point me to a good solution to this.<div><br></div><div>I have a VM server running on VMare. Recently if started to run out of space on it's /var disk - which is a thin provisioned disk. We gave it some more space and I rebooted the server into gparted and expanded the disks into the new free space.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Today I've come in to find that the /var disk had run out of space completely. I did a df -h and can see the following:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Filesystem Size Used Avail use% mounted on</div>
<div>/dev/sdb1 370G 348G 3.0G 100% /var</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>so the 370 gig disk has only used 348 gigs and yet is 100% percent full</div><div><br></div><div>my imeadiate thought was I had run out of inodes, however:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>filesystem inodes iused ifree iuse% </div><div>/dev/sdb1 24576000 430482 24145518 2% /var</div><div><br></div></div><div>so I have loads of them free.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also rebooted the server into grparted and double checked the disk partition and also ran a disk check from here - this flagged up no errors.</div><div><br></div><div>I've now gone through and deleted some stuff to give me some breathing room but I really need that space back.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does any ones have any suggestions please?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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