DISKWARN problem: WHM disk use VS du output mismatch

PPNSteve

• August 13, 2014 03:17

CENTOS 6.5 x86_64 standard running WHM 11.44.1 (build 11) Been getting a DISKWARN email the last few days saying /usr is 83-4% full.. etc. Checked it out and removed some large log files and so on.. got it down to 6.7 GB according to du. root@svr4 [/usr]# du -h --max-depth=1 61M ./src 84K ./man 16K ./lost+found 600M ./share 56M ./sbin 20K ./etc 4.0K ./games 5.5G ./local 34M ./include 154M ./bin 126M ./lib 24M ./libexec 252M ./lib64 6.7G .
BUT WHM is telling me its still at 9.3GB and using 83% /dev/sda3 12G 9.3G 2.0G 83% /usr
Not sure what to do next.. Is it a bug that popped up in a recent update or ???? Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 13, 2014 12:52

  Hello :) I have seen this type of issue resolved in the past after a system reboot. You are posting disk space usage information, so it's not related to a bug with cPanel/WHM because it's completely related to your OS. Thank you.

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  PPNSteve

  • August 13, 2014 18:32

  Apparently something stopped the disk free / disk use from updating properly and after about 48 hours, it did finally update and now reflects my file cleaning. root@svr4 [/usr]# uptime 18:32:11 up 742 days, 3:31, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.19, 0.12
  Restart? nope. Thanks :)

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  JaredR.

  • August 13, 2014 18:38

  Disk space is not accurately reported until the processes that had open files that were using space, close the files. A reboot is the fastest way to make sure all files are closed, but this will happen over time as processes end and close files and services are restarted for other reasons.

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