(ref.doc)blh 010294

From: [email protected] (Bill Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.hp.hpux
Subject: Re: File System Full, bdf, and du
Date: 1 Feb 1994 02:44:12 GMT
Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta

:   I've got "File System Full" message from Remote Watch.  And I
: tried to cleanup some files under /tmp, /usr/tmp.  But the capacity
: still showed 105%.  Then I found out that when I typed "du -x", the
: size shown was much smaller than the size shown using "bdf".
: Finally I decided to reboot the system and tried "bdf" again, it
: dropped to 84% and both "bdf" and "du" looked consistent.  Why is
: that?  Do "bdf" and "du" refer to different sources?  How can I fix
: the problem without rebooting the system?


  Are you using filesystem swap?  If so, the filesystem will grow without
  a real file being stored (ie, visible).  It all goes away at reboot.
  Also, a runaway application that creates a temp file but does not close
  the file will show a lot of usage but without a real file that you can
  see.

Bill