File system full

[Paul Khavkine]

Well it did go down to 63% now but the partition is COMPLETELY empty, 16K
used.
Even 63% doesn't make sense.

How long for softupdates to flush all deleted data usually ?

The box is 4.6-STABLE BTW.


Thanx
Paul

Mark wrote:

> Paul Khavkine wrote:
>
> > Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail
> > servers was reported as
> > full. I have checked if there's any files in /tmp but found that it
> > wasn't true.
> >
> >
> > du reports that /tmp is only using 50K.
> >
> > After a few minutes the size changed from 100% to 66%.
> >
> > Even that makes no sense:
>
> That would probably be the 'softupdates' effect. It was full, then whatever
> filled it got deleted; and, due to the softupdates delay, you see it
> gradually be freed again.
>
> - Mark