Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760788AbXJYL4h (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756375AbXJYL43 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:56:29 -0400 Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([62.27.20.61]:60925 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756048AbXJYL42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:56:28 -0400 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: "James Ausmus" Subject: Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: linux-kernel References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1864658.8YRK5pHrji"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710251356.22639.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 41 --nextPart1864658.8YRK5pHrji Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline James Ausmus wrote: > Since updating my laptop to 2.6.23, occasionally all of my free disk > space on my root partition will just go away, with no files accounting > for the space, with no odd messages in dmesg or my syslog. If I > reboot, I immediately have the proper amount of free space again. Here > is the output of a du -sx * on /, and the output of the df command > when the problem is occuring, followed by the same info after a fresh > reboot (literally just did the command in the failed state, then > immediately rebooted and ran the same commands again) - any thoughts > as to what might be happening? The file that eats up the memory is still opened by a process, but deleted. HTH Eike --nextPart1864658.8YRK5pHrji Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHIIRmXKSJPmm5/E4RAleoAJ9rSCIblYchGOX3yKhNMdWQOLeBXgCfWbIi Vzh3S9AYH+FqSRKNQZEnnCY= =Z9R6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1864658.8YRK5pHrji-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/