[lug] Disk usage discrepancy?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 02:07 pm, Justin-lists wrote:
> The filesystem is ext3. Hmm, my apache logs were taking up a bunch of
> space until I remembered to add them to logrotate :P They are now
> compressed but the space didn't go down much, wonder if that has
> something to do with what you said about open logs...

I would trust ext3 not to screw up, so the answer must be that some process 
has the files open.  Try rebooting and see what happens.  Or at least 
restarting all processes and daemons you can find that might possibly be 
writing logs.

Michael

> Justin
>
> > What filesystem is on /var?  There was an obscure bug in reiserfs a
> > while ago that could cause problems like this.
> >
> > Another possibility is that you are running some kind of log
> > watching program and log files are kept open even after they have
> > been removed.  You might try rebooting and see if that discrepancy
> > is still there.
> >
> > Michael
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