[H-GEN] MySQL filling up /

Anthony Towns aj at azure.humbug.org.au
Tue Jan 6 01:08:49 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:46:29PM +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:
> The real thing I can't understand is how mysql was able to use up 4G of
> space on the disk without me being able to find out where it was doing
> it (and yes, tmpdir was set to /tmp and I know how to show hidden files)

If you have a file that's open, but deleted, it'll continue to take up
space until it's closed. It won't show up in du (because it's not in
the directory structure), but will show up in df (because it's taking
up space).

Cheers,
aj

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