How to troubleshoot when a xfs filesystem is full without any clear reason?
Issue
df reports that the root partition is almost full, but the reason is not found with du and actual used disk space is 1GB only.
[root@radosgw02 ~]# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rhel-root 32016 31246 770 98% /
devtmpfs 482968 354 482614 1% /dev
tmpfs 485301 1 485300 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 485301 366 484935 1% /run
tmpfs 485301 13 485288 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1 512000 1128 510872 1% /boot
[root@radosgw02 ~]# df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rhel-root xfs 27740944 27740924 20 100% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 1931872 0 1931872 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1941204 0 1941204 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 1941204 57684 1883520 3% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 1941204 0 1941204 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1 xfs 508588 168228 340360 34% /boot
[root@radosgw02 /]# du -sh *
0 bin
136M boot
0 dev
22M etc
0 home
0 lib
0 lib64
0 media
0 mnt
0 opt
du: cannot access ‘proc/11424/task/11424/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/11424/task/11424/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/11424/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/11424/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
0 proc
1.2M root
89M run
0 sbin
0 srv
0 sys
4.0K tmp
887M usr
111M var
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All Versions)
- XFS
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