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

If you've got a file that's been 'deleted' (ie rm'ed or unlink'ed) but a program still has it open, you might get this effect.

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply, If I reboot the server will it fix this problem?

Thanks,
Puru

rebooting the server will refresh every process in the server which is a good thing; but depends on how critical applications are being run on the server. If you know what are running on this server then it is more easier to decide against a server running a critical application that requires 24/7 uptime and you have no vendor support. Who knows if the file which was accidentally deleted was a required critical file for an application to run and rebooting the server would not allow it to start again.

Hi,

Great thanks to you, actually Java was accessing the deleted files, I have restarted java and the utilization is normal now.

Thanks,
Puru