df -g & original space are different

[pctech321]

hi,

i have a strange problem today , i got a warning saying 96% full of /import filesystem

tech@sunclipse/import#df -g /import
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd1 2.00 0.09 96% 2692 1% /import


but i run the following command, and found out that total space of all folders and files is not equal to 96% of 2 GB
is there any process consume the space in my import directory ? how to find out that process..see below

tech@sunclipse:/import#du -sg * | sort +0nr
0.02 robert
0.01 bb
0.01 sam
0.01 sitescop
0.00 kalyan
0.00 arrechs
0.00 bealr
0.00 mayne
0.00 dacyp
0.00 devines
0.00 elliottj
0.00 stlouis
0.00 guest
0.00 heng
0.00 leek
0.00 lost+found
0.00 chang
0.00 ponds
0.00 mohan
0.00 sshd
0.00 sysback
0.00 weatherd
0.00 wiggink
0.00 yud

any help appreciated..

thank you,

-Pctech

 

[khalidaaa]

This happens when a process opens a file in that filesystem and being unproperly killed!

Check the processes that are connected to that filesystem using lsof or fuser!

umounting and mounting the filesystem will help as well but it might not let you do that as long as the process is still using it!

Regards,
Khalid