a big file taking all space not trace-able and visible. how to delete?

Hormatzhan Yiltiz hyiltiz at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 15:48:03 UTC 2013


Could this be a jinx?

hyiltiz,
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Steve,
> thats exactly how it happened. even after reboot i saw some ssh processes
> lingering. the ssh process were started by www-data using perls' Net::SSH
> lib - from my intranet web page. this box hoststhe LAMP server too. i do
> not know how perl's Net::SSH internaly manages ssh connections. but i am
> also confused how a process 'survived' a reboot?
>
> anyway i am good now. only strange side-affect i have is that my
> gnome-terminal profiles got messed up. i had to re-create those.
>
> thx again!
>
>   *From:* Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
> *To:* Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support,
> not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:25 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: a big file taking all space not trace-able and visible.
> how to delete?
>
> On 24 January 2013 22:14, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > i had rebooted ther server but it would still show 100% space used (it
> was
> > 3GB + file).
>
> > but as soon as i killed the ssh process i got my space back.
>
> When you rm'd the file it was unlinked. The filesystem doesn't
> actually get the space back until all processes which had a lock on
> the file release that lock. That's why I suggested rebooting the
> machine to ensure that all processes released their locks as I'd
> assumed you'd already killed all processes which would have been
> involved in this.
>
> I'm confused though - if you already HAD rebooted the server, how did
> you have to kill the SSH process after the reboot... obviously that
> wasn't the order in which things happened!
>
> > I have now forced fsck on this system. just to be sure.
>
> Shouldn't be nercessary but it won't hurt.
>
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