[KLUG Members] SLES 9 not showing free disk space

[Marr]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 10:43am, Stuart Gillis wrote:
> I have a server running SLES 9, apache and oracle 10g.
>
> Oracle is installed in /opt which is part of the same partition as
> root. Data files are in a separate partion. Oracle created a 6.7GB
> temp01.dbf file in /opt which filled the partition which is causing
> havoc. I copied the temp01.dbf file to the /data partition and oracle
> was reconfigured to look for it there. I then deleted the temp01.dbf
> file from /opt.
>
> The problem is after deleting this 6.7GB file, df -h still shows that
> partition as full.
>
> dev/cciss/c0d0p2      16G   15G   28M 100% /
> tmpfs                 1.5G   12K  1.5G   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1      63M   39M   25M  62% /boot
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p7     648G  326G  323G  51% /data
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     5.1G  1.1G  4.0G  21% /tmp
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5      11G  141M  9.9G   2% /var
>
> Is there a way to force the system to rescan the partitions?

Try this:

   blockdev --rereadpt

I've used that in the past for (unmounted) external hard disk drives whereby 
'fdisk -l' is showing stale (i.e. shows info from the previously-mounted 
drive) partition size data.

I don't know if it'll work in your particular case though -- seems like your 
problem is too dissimilar to mine.

HTH....

Bill Marr