Disk Space Utilization Problem

[puro@pronto]

Hi,

I am facing a strange problem in my server, One of my filesystem shows as 3.1G when I execute df -h command and the utilization shows as 83%, but when I cd to the directory /usr/local I could not find any huge files in that filesystem and I have searched for hidden files as well, any help?

groupserver:~ # df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 3.1G 2.5G 532M 83% /usr/local

groupserver:/usr/local # du -sh *
0 bin
93M abinav
4.0K dspace.txt
0 games
0 include
0 lib
12K man
0 sbin
0 share
0 src
5.2M temp

Thanks,
Puru

[meton_magis]

my guess, either you or a script has deleted a file while it was in use. To free the space (release the phantom files) you need to unmount the filesyem, fsck it (not entirely necessary, but highly recomended,) and remount it.

The easiest way to do this is to just reboot the box. If that's not an option, you need to make sure no processes are still using files (use lsof for this) and then unmount it. Note that you can not have a shell opened that is currenty in that directory.

[puro@pronto]

Hi,

Great thanks to you, actually Java was accessing that deleted files, I have restarted Java and the usage becomes normal now.

Thanks,
Puru