Disk Space Inaccuracy

Brandon brpacecar at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 16:12:31 MST 2012


I recently took over control of the server but did find there were some
custom logrotate configs that did not have apache doing a graceful restart.
I'll set it and see how it goes over the next few days. Thanks for the help.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Andrew Harris <tuna at supertunaman.com>wrote:

> > We have contacted the hosting provider about this and are told it
> appears to
> > be an issue with the disk quota and that a reboot will fix it. A reboot
> does
> > seem to fix the issue for a short time but does not seem to be the root
> > cause. Each contact with the hosting provider returns the same results.
> >
>
> Wow, what hosting company is this? Is it run by the guys from the IT
> Crowd ("have you tried turning it off and on again?")?
>
> +1 to Matt Graham's reply. I've noticed this quite often at work. If
> you don't do a graceful restart so it closes the files after you
> unlink them, the OS will still show the disk space as used.
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