On 1/7/07, Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/7/07, Donovan Niesen <dniesen at gmail.com> wrote: > > What > > I mean is that while df shows 26GB used, du of that same mount show > > only 7.4 GB used. It seems that MySQL may be chomping some space in a > > weird way because when I restart the MySQL server the space reappears. > > I remember seeing a discussion about this a while back. > http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2004-May.txt > Search for "where is my disk space" on that page. I'm guessing that > MySQL is keeping "deleted" files open, similar to what Tom was seeing > with his app, and that's why restarting MySQL frees up the space. > - Justin > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > This must be it. I have a script that updates the db on machine every day from an outside source; I have a feeling either MySQL or some error in my script must be unlinking a file and letting it hang out. Thanks guys! -- Donovan Niesen