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- From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
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- Subject: Re: /tmp Corrupted
- Message-ID: <8651@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:54:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com>
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- Reply-To: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen C. Woods)
- Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering & Applied Science
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- In article <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) writes:
- >Recently our /tmp file system started to fill up. I went to /tmp and deleted
- >unnecessary files. However, this did not release any space in the file system
- >according to df. I went ahead and deleted all of the files in /tmp and the
- >file system was still 100% full! I ran fsck on /tmp and got:
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- Sounds to me like some process created a file and then unlinked it, but kept
- it open. This can lead to large amounts of disk being used with no files
- present.
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