The UNIX and Linux Forums  


Go Back   The UNIX and Linux Forums > Special Forums > Hardware > Filesystems, Disks and Memory
.
google unix.com



Filesystems, Disks and Memory Discuss NAS, SAN, RAID, Robotic Libraries, backup devices, RAM, DRAM, SCSI, IDE, EIDE topics here.

More UNIX and Linux Forum Topics You Might Find Helpful
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Moving files with space, in for loop saabir Shell Programming and Scripting 6 02-04-2009 01:30 PM
Multiple Files Renaming with space nazri76 UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 13 10-04-2008 01:04 PM
Space problem in files vibhor_agarwali UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 6 05-22-2007 03:43 AM
Dvd files concatenate error: Not enough space maag SUN Solaris 3 05-06-2006 11:39 PM
when I try to run rm on multiple files I have problem to delete files with space umen UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 1 09-20-2005 04:20 AM

 
English Japanese Spanish French German Portuguese Italian Dutch Swedish Russian Norwegian Hungarian Hebrew Danish Bulgarian Greek Powered by Powered by Google
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 01-08-2008
apra143 apra143 is offline
Registered User
  
 

Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 37
mv files still in use - space not freed

Had a issue recently where DB admins did:

mv listener.log listener.log.old
gzip listener.log.old

Where file listener.log is continually being written to by an oracle process.

Anyway, according to the DB admins they successfully created the
listener.log.old.gz
file (i.e. all went okay).

Then they started complaining that space had not been freed on the filesystem.

I logged in and couldn't see the file listener.log.old.gz anywhere. The "listener.log", which was 2GB originally, was indeed smaller when I checked, so it was moved.

"du -ks /opt/sw/oracle" showed 4GB in use.

Whereas "df -k" showed 6GB in use on the "/opt/sw/oracle" mountpoint.

Apparently it's something to do with inodes referring to the original file while it's still in use ... but not sure, which is why I am posting to find out why?

Anyway, to fix the issue, stopping and restarting the process using the file will free up the space.
 

Bookmarks

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On




All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:11 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Language Translations Powered by .
vBCredits v1.4 Copyright ©2007 - 2008, PixelFX Studios
The UNIX and Linux Forums Content Copyright ©1993-2009. All Rights Reserved.Ad Management by RedTyger

Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0