[Gllug] ext3 filesystem suddenly full

[Nix]

On 21 Jun 2007, tethys at gmail.com told this:

> On 6/21/07, Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> wrote:
>
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17G   17G     0 100% /
>>
>> Totaling up the contents of the directories in / with 'du' I can account for 5.1G's
>> worth. So where has over 11G's worth of stuff, that I can't find, come from?
>
> If it's not in any of the subdirectories, then you must have either a)
> filesystem corruption, or b) a massive file or two in your root
> directory.

or c) a deleted file being held open --- *not* necessarily by any
process, either, especially if you have processes than play with
SCM_RIGHTS and Unix-domain sockets (rare), or d) a massive file hiding
under a mount point.

I remember finding a 690Mb news logfile (back in the days when that
was real space), hiding under /var/log/news (an NFS mountpoint).

I've also uncovered stuff hiding under /proc in the past.

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