On guest: rootfs 100% full, but only 622MB actually used; can't rectify?

anubis

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Hi All,

I've encountered this error a couple of times on my VM guests now and normally I can clear the issue with a simple reboot or reboot with fsck, but unfortunately, this time, it just won't clear.

The problem I'm having is that the 'rootfs' partition is reporting as 100% full but it's actually not. Running du reports only 600MB utilised and I can't find any way to rectify the matter. A few reboots, and fsck's still haven't fixed it.

Here's the status:

root@rp001:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 31G 31G 0 100% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 202M 220K 202M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/12e600c3-100b-4239-99cb-487e6ffdf97b 31G 31G 0 100% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 678M 0 678M 0% /run/shm
tmpfs 678M 0 678M 0% /tmp

root@rp001:~# df -h -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 2.0M 36K 1.9M 2% /
udev 251K 324 250K 1% /dev
tmpfs 252K 251 252K 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/12e600c3-100b-4239-99cb-487e6ffdf97b 2.0M 36K 1.9M 2% /
tmpfs 252K 2 252K 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 252K 2 252K 1% /run/shm
tmpfs 252K 1 252K 1% /tmp

root@rp001:~# du -x / | sort -n
~ snip earlier smaller files ~
81776 /usr/lib
106196 /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel
109136 /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64
109140 /lib/modules
114672 /var/lib
124980 /lib
169468 /usr/share
233792 /var
284344 /usr
676834 /

Can anyone shed some light on what might be going on here.

Cheers.
Steve.
 

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