/ full?

[Jim Herrmann]

I figured I would do a reboot since it was quick and easy.  Didn't help much:
/dev/hda1              5542276   5185044     75696  99% /

On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:17 am, Carl Sappenfield wrote:
> Looking at your du and df outputs reminds me of something I've seen in AIX,
> which may apply to Linux...
> If I'm reading this right, du is implying you've only used about 2.5G in
> your / partition (/ less /home).  df is saying it's almost 5.3G.  In AIX,
> this can happen when,  a file is deleted that a process is still writing
> to. The only way to get the space back is to shut down the process that was
> writing to the now non-existant file.
> I would just reboot and then see if du and df match.
>