Lost discspace – where did it go?

I hope to help somebody by posting this:
I had an 1G discpartition which was almost full. There was only 153Mb of free space while there was only 212Mb of files. So, where did it al go?

Well, my sollution->
– lsof | grep /var/log
Telling me there were some deleted files (deleted by hand) which were still in use by the syslog-service. So, somehow the files were gone out of the ls (and any other progs like du) but were still using space. A simple restart of the syslog service did the trick. 🙂 Since I ealier moved all big logfiles to another partition, there is 900Mb of available space!

But how did i do it? By deleting some logfiles while in use by the syslogserver and changing the rotate-settings at the same time. I can’t tell you the exact order to achieve this, but it must have been something like this.

I would like to hear it if it helped…