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Solaris df reported disk usage differently to du

I dropped the hitlogging tablespace whose size was 200+ gb.
But:

run df report

bash-3.00# df -h
la-ora01-db            588G    31K    44G     1%    /oradb
la-ora01-db/data       588G   489G    44G    92%    /oradb/data

bash-3.00# du -s -h /oradb/data
 217G   /oradb/data

-bash-3.00# for pid in `ps -ef | grep ora_ | awk '{print $2}'`; do 
 pfiles  $pid | grep log  ; done | sort | uniq
   ...
      /oradb/data/stats2/hitlog2010.dbf
      /oradb/data/stats2/hitlog2011.dbf
      /oradb/data/stats2/hitlog2012.dbf
      /oradb/data/stats2/hitlogempty.dbf
      /oradb/data/stats2/hitlogmview01.dbf
 ...

The files I drooped were hitlogging*.dbf and non of them appear in the list above.
After 3-4 hours waiting to remove the possibility of cache effect, I restarted the database

SQL>shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.

-bash-3.00# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/                       39G   8.8G    30G    23%    /
/dev                    39G   8.8G    30G    23%    /dev

la-ora01-db            588G    31K   316G     1%    /oradb
la-ora01-db/data       588G   217G   316G    41%    /oradb/data

Maybe some other user process hold the files? I only inspected the oracle background process and usually the most likely suspect is db file writer (dbwn).

Hongfeng Sun : 05 Jan 2012 16:26 |  Tags: Oracle |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem