linux-kernel - Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression

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Message-Id: <200710251356.22639.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:17 +0200
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	"James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space

James Ausmus wrote:
> Since updating my laptop to 2.6.23, occasionally all of my free disk
> space on my root partition will just go away, with no files accounting
> for the space, with no odd messages in dmesg or my syslog. If I
> reboot, I immediately have the proper amount of free space again. Here
> is the output of a du -sx * on /, and the output of the df command
> when the problem is occuring, followed by the same info after a fresh
> reboot (literally just did the command in the failed state, then
> immediately rebooted and ran the same commands again) - any thoughts
> as to what might be happening?

The file that eats up the memory is still opened by a process, but deleted.

HTH

Eike

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