After the file is deleted, the disk space will not be released and an alarm will be triggered. the disk space will soon be full. $ Df-h www.2cto.com file system capacity used available % mount point/dev/sda2 15G 937 M 13G 7%/dev/sda3 473G 105G 344G 24%/u02/ dev/sda8 8.6G 7.3G 819 M 91%/tmp/dev/sda7 9.5G 412 M 8.6G 5%/home/dev/sda6 15G 1.9G 12G 14%/usr/dev /sda5 15G 1015 M 13G 8%/var/dev/sda1 122 M 11 M 105 M 10%/boottmpfs 24G 92 K 24G 1%/dev/shm/dev/sdb1 1.4 T 864G 437G 67%/u01 went to the tmp directory, the 7.1G tmp_collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111130.log file is large, so rm is dropped. However, df found that the disk space was not released. $ Rm tmp_collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111130.log $ df-H file system capacity in use available % mount point/dev/sda2 15G 937 M 13G 7%/dev/sda3 473G 105G 344G 24%/ u02/dev/sda8 8.6G 7.3G 819 M 91%/tmp/dev/sda7 9.5G 412 M 8.6G 5%/home/dev/sda6 15G 1.9G 12G 14%/usr /dev/sda5 15G 1015 M 13G 8%/var/dev/sda1 122 M 11 M 105 M 10%/boottmpfs 24G 92 K 24G 1%/dev/shm/dev/ sdb1 1.4 T 864G 437G 67%/u01172.23.142.7: /nas/mysql_bak0535T 23 T 12 T 66 %/Bak3306 is not released because the file is opened. So ps aux | grep tmp found the following process: $ ps axu | grep tmpmysql 6007 0.0 0.0 8700 960? Ss 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/batch 2> & 1 mysql 6008 0.0 0.0 8700 964? Ss 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u01_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/secrets 2> & 1 mysql 6009 0.0 0.0 8704 756? S 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/batch 2> & 1 mysql 6011 0.0 0.0 8704 764? S 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u01_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/batch 2> & 1 mysql 31669 0.0 0.0 8700 956? Ss 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/batch 2> & 1 mysql 31670 0.0 0.0 8704 756? S 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u02_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/batch 2> & 1 mysql 31674 0.0 0.0 8700 960? Ss 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u01_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/secrets 2> & 1 mysql 31678 0.0 0.0 8704 760? S 2011/bin/sh-c/home/mysql/collect_msg_u01_io_peien_20111123.sh>/tmp/timeout 2> & 1 11 years of processes, these people are really unreliable, test scripts, it should be cleared after completion. Kill these processes. Release disk space. $ Df-H file system capacity in use % available mount point/dev/sda2 15G 937 M 13G 7%/dev/sda3 473G 105G 344G 24%/u02/dev /sda8 8.6G 190 M 7.9G 3%/tmp/dev/sda7 9.5G 412 M 8.6G 5%/home/dev/sda6 15G 1.9G 12G 14%/usr/dev/ sda5 15G 1015 M 13G 8%/var/dev/sda1 122 M 11 M 105 M 10%/boottmpfs 24G 92 K 24G 1%/dev/shm/dev/sdb1 1.4 T 864G 437G 67%/u01172.23.142.7: /nas/mysql_bak0535T 24 T 12 T 66%/bak3306