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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J Morey)
Thu Apr 9 10:48:51 1998
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Subject: Re: OS problem with athena machine ElValle.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 10:45:23 EDT
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
It could be that some process is writing to a file in /tmp, but that
file has since been `rm'ed. In that case, there's no longer any name
pointing to that file, so `du' wouldn't find it, but if the process
still had an open file handle, it could still be writing to it and
filling up the disk.
There's not really any easy way to find out what program is doing it,
but if this is the problem, then rebooting would fix it.
- -- Dan
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