[Gllug] Disk space anomaly

[tid]

2009/1/21 John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>:
> It is probably not the case here, but you can have big anomalies in the
> output of df and du if you have processes which are still holding open
> filehandles for deleted files.
>

ohh yes. Been there: I once spent sometime diagnosing "where all the
disk went" for
a newbie who had killed an emacs process with an open shell session that been
open for "about 3 or four weeks". lsof was my friend.

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