[ale] strange issue with disc space

[terrorpup at gmail.com (Chuck Payne)]

Guys,

I have a question. Have you ever seen disc space just disappear and
you were unable to find what is using? One of our DB came to me the
other day pointed out that one of his rac boxes has filled up

                      2.0G  1.7G  214M  89% /
                      2.0G   88M  1.8G   5% /tmp
                     1023M  298M  673M  31% /opt
                      2.0G  203M  1.7G  11% /home
                      2.0G  297M  1.6G  16% /archive
                      2.0G  456M  1.4G  25% /var
                      4.9G  2.7G  2.0G  59% /usr
                      2.0G   68M  1.8G   4% /usr/local
                       40G   12G   26G  32% /u00
                     122M   32M   84M  28% /boot
                     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
	             4.0G  118M  3.9G   3% /crs_db

so I started looking into,  but I can't find any file or dir on the
root partition that eat space. I have  looked at dmesg and don't see
anything. Oh, we have rebooted the box and the space didn't clear up.


Just an fyi, here are things I did look, please feel free to let me
know what other things I need to check.

alias ducks='du -chs * | sort -rn | head -11'
find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{
print $NF ": " $5 }'  | sort -nrk 2,2
lsof -a +L1


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