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THE FILE SERVER WENT READ-ONLY-ISH. TURNS OUT /VAR WAS SCREAMING FOR DAYS

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Accepted solution by Aiden Sorensen — been there man if u deleted a big file and df didnt change, a process still has it open ;) sudo lsof +L1 lists deleted but open files.…
  1. Ada C.
    @adac582

    help!! help... the file server is barely alive. SSH works, but every command complains about wriitng temp files... heres teh disk:

    Disk 0 (C:) Active time 100%

    Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
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    I deleted teh biggest log I could find and df didnt budge. am i losing my mind?

    im pretty suree Im missing smth fundamental about how Linux handles deleted files. the service is still running and still writing, as far as i can tell. do i need to restart smth? will that lose data? :D im nervous.

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  2. Pia
    @shadermonk

    does lsof +L1 list any large deleted files still held open?

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  4. Cyrus Adler
    @lambdanomad

    package caches are safe to clear: sudo apt clean on Debian/Ubuntu or sudo dnf clean all on RHEL-family... old kernels can also take space: sudo apt autoremove --purge. lmk how it goes

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  5. Aiden Sorensen
    @aiden.sorensen56
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    been there man if u deleted a big file and df didnt change, a process still has it open ;) sudo lsof +L1 lists deleted-but-open files. restart that service, or truncate instead of deleting next time: sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/big.log. hope that helps :)

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