Df -Ik incorrect display of used space/free space 1

[RBOLLEN]

Hello Everybody,

I have a strange problem when I do a df -Ik of a particular filesystem, it says that there is approx. 90Mb used while there is nothing in the filesystem. I have tried a fsck on that filesystem and no problems, did a fuser /dev/filesystem and no processes that maybe had a unlinked file. Then I have removed the filesystem + logical volume and created it again and still 90Mb used space, but there is nothing in the filesystem!

Who can help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
Rudy

 

[DSMARWAY]

How big is your filesystem ?
you have to remember that inodes will take up some space so you won't actually get the full amount of space .

 

[RBOLLEN]

Thanks DSMARWAY, the inodes where the "problem", it was a filesystem for oracle datafiles, and it was accidentely made with nbpi 4096 and it has to be 32K or more....

 

[ddlldd2000]

RBOLLEN, I had met the familiar problem as yours several days before. When I delete a abnormal file in the /cicslog which was over 2GB, and used df -k to check the space, it did not free the space. So I had to use fuser killing all the processes linked with the filesystem, after that, I umount it and mount it again. I gain the space.

 

[RBOLLEN]

Hello ddlldd2000!

Your problem was also the first thing what I thought the problem was, but is was not. Anyway thanks for your reaction.