Re: Phantom disk space

From: Eduardo Aliende de Miguel <E.Aliende_at_bull.es>
Date: 1996/11/07
Message-ID: <3281DC2D.7C00_at_bull.es>#1/1


Greg Tupper wrote:
>
> I have had a problem much like this on an HPUX 9.01 box. I deleted all
> the oracle datafiles, but the system still reported my disk as 85% filled.
>
> I thought it a bug in the HpUX 9.01 kernel.
>
> Rebooting the system restored the space....
>
> Greg Tupper
> gtupper_at_nosc.mil
>
> Tim Antler (tantler_at_mdshealth.com) wrote:
> : My company recent ran a HUGE job on our Oracle 7.2.2.1 server (running on
> : a dual-processor AlphaServer 2100A) which updated a large number of columns
> : in a large number of tables.
 

> : The update died due to a table allocation problem. Instead of letting it
> : back out of the rollback segments (it took 15 hours to get to the point of
> : failure), we decided to kill Oracle and restore the database files from our
> : last tape backup instead.
 

> : When I was attempting to restore a particular JBOD filesystem, I
> : discovered that there was not enough free space in the filesystem to do the
> : restore. I checked and all files that I was going to restore were there
> : and accounted for, but there was about 300 Mb more used space than the
> : files on it occupied. I deleted all of the files I was attempting to
> : restore and the filesystem still reported that it was 35% full.
 

> : Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is it a Digital UNIX quirk or
> : Oracle. We are running DU 3.2c. The backup/restore software is Polycenter
> : Save/Restore that comes with DU.
 

> : Thank you.
 

> : --
> : Tim Antler
> : Technical Analyst - Systems
> : MDS Health Group Limited

It's posible that any process has opened the files, and you don't see the files but the system can't
free space because the process is using it.

This explain that when you reboot the process don't exist and the space is recover. Received on Thu Nov 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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