[H-GEN] MySQL filling up /

[David Jericho]

Michael Anthon wrote:
> In the end [1] I bounced the mysql server and all of a sudden I had 4G
> free and df was reporting only 5G used.

Basically you've got a file handle open, a file grew to be the biggest 
it could filling the disk, the file got deleted, but the file handle was 
left open. du and df fetch the disk used information in different ways.

Although, the question definitely should be why are you writing to / 
with a database process, or why does your mysql process have the rights 
to write to / ?

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David Jericho
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