bdf and du -sk showing different outputs

[PraveenMotupalle]

bdf and du -sk showing different outputs. os version HP-UX 11.23. 40GB filesystem bdf showing 90% full and du -sk output showing 8gb used.
Requesting your help on this.

[Kanagaraj]

Hi Praveen,

Please conform me total size of the file system,used size and available free space(bdf output),

It could be reason when ever you are deleting some big files in a file system,it will take time to recontruct the file system to effect with deleted file size.

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Praveen,

bdf provides the output of the mount points in %, on the other hand, du -sk shows the size of any directory in kilobytes.

So, plz clarify what the issue U raising here as I am not clear about it.

Rgds-Kranti

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Most likely you have deleted files that a running process still has open. That free space will not be returned until the process holding the file open terminates (or at least closes the file).

To see files and processes in this state use lsof as follows:

lsof +L1 | grep REG

if you don't have lsof, get it here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.81/

HTH

Duncan

[Sridhar R]

Hi Praveen,

Kindly post the bdf output and du -sk outputs.


#bdf
#cd /
# du -sk


Thanks & Regards
Sridhar

[PraveenMotupalle]

We restarted the application; now everything working fine..

Thanks a lot for your help.