root file system shows full but is not full

[dandan123]

df -k shows / at 100% but when I do a du -sk * it shows very little usage, du -sk * output (with mount points removed) -

2 axent
1 bin
1 cdrom
1 dead.letter
938 dev
22 devices
1 esm
35483 etc
2 export
0 flararchive
0 flarcreate
93 hwinfo
60378 kernel
1 lib
8 lost+found
1 mnt
0 net
1 oradata1-old
1 oradata2
1 oradnew
21977 platform
403925800 proc
0 rootdisk
26505 sbin
1456 tmp
1 u08
0 vol
9 xfn


This hapenned after the boot disk was replaced. As the boot disk was mirrored using Veritas the system was not brought down.

As this is a production box a reboot is not immediately possible.

Any suggestions ?

 

[maximusGeek]

I have had problems like that with Veritas. Veritas wrote the VTOC incorrectly and I had a host of strange problems.

 

[dandan123]

Over the weekend I was able to work on this box and it turned out someone had dumped files in a mount point when the filesystem was unmounted. Probably hapenned when we had a disk failure.

So it turned out the root filesystem was actually full and being reported correctly.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks for getting back to us with the solution - it's nice not to leave threads dangling!

I want to be good, is that not enough?