Hi,

I'm using a shell script that repeatedly creates and removes temporary files in /tmp (quite a lot actually). When I look at the disc usage using du I see normal values, but df shows that there is quite a log of space missing.

~# du -h -d1
0       ./dropbear-b36f09fa
76.0k   ./wdbb
0       ./spool
0       ./log
20.0k   ./run
124.0k  .

~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               832.0k    832.0k         0 100% /rom
none                     14.9M      1.3M     13.6M   9% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock/4           6.3M      2.5M      3.7M  41% /jffs
/jffs                   832.0k    832.0k         0 100% /

This used to mean I had to reboot the box once a day. After I changed the scripts to write less files less often, I think I can now get it to run for several days, but it's still annoying.

I've also heard reports of people having their boxes mysteriously lock up after several weeks/months, maybe this is why.

Any ideas anyone?

(Last edited by Jannes on 22 Jul 2006, 09:56)