yes, this was huge trc files issue.. thanks Niall and David :)..Subodh On 13 May 2010 17:16, David Roberts <big.dave.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I remember correctly du will ignore unreadable directories and files > silently, are you sure that your user has read access to all the > sub-directories? > > A less likely problem could be disk corruption. > > You could get your sysadmin to run fsck in single user mode and check to > see if anything appears in the lost+found directory. > > Dave > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Subodh Deshpande < > deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thanks Niall, >> >> I will check this fact with our sysadmin..will updatee you..subodh >> >> >> >> On 12 May 2010 19:26, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> Most commonly one or more large files have been deleted (and so do not >>> show up in the du output) but the inodes have not yet been released by one >>> or more processes - so they are still included in the df output. >>> >>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Subodh Deshpande < >>> deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> hi all, >>>> >>>> I am facing a very strange issue on one of the hardsik when OEM and rman >>>> are installed both are 10g. >>>> Out of three attached hardsik to this box the problem is with only on >>>> hardisk.. >>>> >>>> e.g. df -h >>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>>> /dev/sda1 18G 7.9G 8.9G 47% / >>>> /dev/sda2 145M 15M 123M 11% /boot >>>> /dev/sda3 9.8G 9.0G 236 M 98% /oracle >>>> none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm >>>> adata >>>> When I used to check the space as a root and/or as oracle user it shows >>>> me almost 98% used and sometimes even 100%. >>>> And when I navigate to that particular hardisk and stareted counting >>>> space occupied >>>> >>>> cd /oracle >>>> du -sh admin oradata product >>>> >>>> 1.3M admin >>>> 32 M oradata >>>> 4.5 G product >>>> >>>> the difference of nearly 50% of space..what could be the issue >>>> >>>> thanks..subodh >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Niall Litchfield >>> Oracle DBA >>> http://www.orawin.info >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ============================== >> DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY >> ============================== >> > > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================