Re: Directory Size problem

"Dan Track" <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a directory /var/spool/mqueue that is at 3.6G. The problem is
that I've deleted everything in the directory but the size reported
from du -hs is still reported as 3.6G. I've shutdown all potential
sevices that could possibly be using teh directory e.g sendmail,
httpd, syslog but it hasn't helped if I run an lsof or fuser against
the directory I get no connections listed.

Could someone please help me figure this weird problem out.
Is it the directory itself that still shows 3.6G? That is, what does ls -lh /var/spool show for the mqueue directory? Since you've already disabled all of the services that may access the directory, why not nuke it (rm -rf /var/spool/mqueue) and then re-create it? Just make sure you get the ownership and permissions right.

If the directory contained a large number of small files, it's possible that it's just taking the file system some time to "catch up." At a previous job I had to wipe clean a very bushy directory structure with several hundred thousand files between test runs. If we could, we would put this directory structure on a separate file system since it was faster to unmount it, format it and remount it than it was to rm -rf the directory structure. Could something like this be going on?

Cheers,
Dave

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