[Klug-general] disk space issue

[Karl Buckland]

Have you tried running df --sync ? Sometimes the stats that df uses are not
correct and need to be updated.

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.

Karl


On 29 April 2013 09:13, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all hopefully someone can point me to a good solution to this.
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> Filesystem           Size   Used  Avail   use% mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             370G  348G  3.0G 100% /var
>
>
> so the 370 gig disk has only used 348 gigs and yet is 100% percent full
>
> my imeadiate thought was I had run out of inodes, however:
>
> filesystem           inodes      iused    ifree           iuse%
> /dev/sdb1            24576000 430482 24145518    2% /var
>
> so I have loads of them free.
>
> 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.
>
> I've now gone through and deleted some stuff to give me some breathing
> room but I really need that space back.
>
> Does any ones have any suggestions please?
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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