Perhaps at one time you tried to delete an open file which was growing, and still is growing as the process accountable for it still has the file open, only you can't see it anymore?
command to look into the space under root directories!
You should not create any directories under root without specifying an lv for that and then use the name of the directory needed as a mount point to that lv!
>> Perhaps at one time you tried to delete an open file which was growing, and still is growing as the process accountable for it still has the file open, only you can't see it anymore?
Is there a way to find the invisible file w/o reboot?
/dev is a subdirectory of /. if a archiving command is being run to /dev/rmto instead of /dev/rmt0 <-zero then a large file in /dev called rmto is create so / fills up
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
That would be the process which has a file open. The file was deleted some time ago, but the process is still running, and the file still exists on disk, and it is still growing. Only thing is, the file doesn't have a name anymore, but it is still using ever more disk blocks.
When you stop that process, the file will be deleted for real, and the diskspace will be recovered.
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