Re: /tmp full, unable to cleart

[Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>]

Hi,

This can happen when the process that was creating the file still 
has the file open.  The file is deleted from the directory entry,
but the disk space won't be freed up until the last process that
has the file open closes it.

Did you by any chance see which user/application had created the
file before you deleted it?

If so, just look at their processes and/or kill selective ones,or
all of them.

Good Luck!
> 
> I couldn't send this from my box since I couldn't use any of the mail
> clients, due to /tmp beiung full.  Please respond to
> stevenm@static-ip-138.sihope.com
> 
> 
> Anyways, someone filled /tmp.... du -k /tmp clearly showed the file.  So I
> rm it, and now du -kc /tmp shows total space used as 5k.  This seems right
> as there are few files in there.  But df still shows /tmp as full, and
> nothing can write to it.  I would have tried to find out why myself, but
> this system is in production and I don't have the time to mess around
> while people are losing ability to do stuff..
> 


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