[KLUG Members] Re: SLES 9 not showing free disk space

[Bruce Smith]

hdparm has an option to reread the partition table (-z).
Although I never tried it.

P.S.  Everyone quite "replying-ALL" and reply only to the list so I
don't have to manually approve all the messages.  Thanks!

 - BS


> Seemed like good idea but I got an error.
> 
> projsrv2:/ # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/cciss/c0d0p2
> BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
> projsrv2:/ # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /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  144M  9.9G   2% /var
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> On 9/7/05, Marr <marr at flex.com> wrote:
> > 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