topic Re: file system full in Operating System - Linux

file system full

jackfiled — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:44:12 GMT

After removed a largest file about 3GB,
but /usr remains full.
how could it be? /usr allocated total 3.8GB

[root@ecfarm3 /]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/ida/c0d0p1 1.9G 408M 1.4G 22% /

/dev/ida/c0d0p5 26G 19G 5.7G 77% /data5

/dev/ida/c0d0p6 3.8G 3.8G 0 100% /usr

/dev/ida/c0d0p7 984M 246M 688M 27% /var

what is the problem?
Dose linux has bugs?
can you explain above that.?

give me the solution to resolve the problem..
except rebooting linux box.

Re: file system full

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:55:21 GMT

if you can umount this partition
then umount it and run fsck on it.

unfet that mount it back and see it it's still full.

Re: file system full

jackfiled — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:39:08 GMT

I cannot umount it
still using.

Re: file system full

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:41:45 GMT

You can't or you wish not to?
Cause if you can't
there is
umount -l /dev/ida/c0d0p6

or you can use the fuser command to see who is using the partition.

Re: file system full

Claudio Cilloni — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:53:42 GMT

remembeber that you can delete a file that is still in use by one or more processes. These processes will not realize that the file was deleted, and the disk space used by that file will not be freed until the processes stop using it.
If you know that there are one or more program that were using that file, close them.

Ciao
Claudio

Re: file system full

Petr Simik_1 — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:11:33 GMT

#fuser -v (disk/dir) tells you who is using this file or try #fuser -k it kills users using this file. Than you can umnount and mount it as you wish.

Re: file system full

jackfiled — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:39:01 GMT

OK it works.

first I could get the process used the file
fuser -v /dir

then,

I could kill the process, file system

remains normal capacity as it removed file.

as you tell me that

the disk space used by that file will not be

freed until the processes stop using it.

thanks all