It's possible that a process has a huge open file that's been removed
from the file system.  Until the process is killed or close()s the file,
it will still consume the space on the actual disk.  Maybe something
like lsof can find it, or you could just restart the suspected
processes.

dan

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:01:36AM -0500, Chris Smith wrote:
>    There are other symptoms, like users can't start a new session in the web
>    app it is running, as it is messing up MySQL..
>    It is reporting the space in df...
> 
>    [root at mail ~]# df -h
>    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>    /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                          130G  129G     0 100% /
>    /dev/sda1              99M   24M   71M  26% /boot
>    tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
> 
>    On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Elvedin Trnjanin <[1]trnja001 at umn.edu>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Where is it reporting zero available space? Maybe you have a partition
>      for read only media such as a DVD and it's misreporting that as lacking
>      space.
> 
>      Try `df -h` to get information about your mounted partitions.
> 
>      Chris Smith wrote:
> 
>        Hi,
> 
>        I've got a server reporting zero available HD space, and I believe it
>        because the website it isn't working right. However, I can't seem to
>        find any files that are huge or taking up this space.
>        Below is an output from du * in the root directory. I've also used
>        find in a variety of way to find any files bigger than 10meg or so and
>        nothing seems to be big enough to begin to take up the whole 130 gig
>        drive.. i hope someone has some ideas.. this server is in a  remote
>        colo too btw
>        Thanks in advance!
> 
>        This is an output from du:
> 
>        [root at mail /]# du -sh *
>        8.1M    bin
>        19M    boot
>        4.0K    data
>        96K    dev
>        59M    etc
>        82M    home
>        267M    lib
>        21M    lib64
>        16K    lost+found
>        12K    media
>        0    misc
>        8.0K    mnt
>        0    net
>        322M    opt
>        0    proc
>        124M    root
>        26M    sbin
>        8.0K    selinux
>        8.0K    srv
>        0    sys
>        20K    tmp
>        3.2G    usr
>        636M    var
> 
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