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

[Stuart Gillis]

On 9/7/05, Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
I suspected something like this but didn't know what to do about it
short of rebooting.

> So I'd wager the file is still open,  by the Oracle daemon most likely.
> Have you bounced the engine?
> 
Oracle was started, it had actually shut down, and running fine.
Apache and more specifically Tomcat wouldn't run.

All is well now. I got pulled away from this and when I checked a
couple hours later it was at 56% utilization. Somewhere along the way
it refreshed. Maybe the dba bounced Oracle again. I'll have to ask
him. I would have liked to have solved this so I knew what to do in
the future, but I have some things to try now.

Thanks,
Stu