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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Any ideas?

The file has not been deleted, only dereferenced.  On UNIX you can
dereference a file with "rm" but it is not delete until (a) the
reference count reaches zero *AND* (b) all file handles in the kernel
referencing the file have been released.

So I'd wager the file is still open,  by the Oracle daemon most likely.
Have you bounced the engine?

> 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?