Mounted directory is shrinking

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This is a bit strange. I have a ZSH mounted network directory in a Redhat VM and it appears to be shrinking:

[aramk@server-C production]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             8.7G  7.2G  1.1G  87% /
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
myserver:/mypath
                      3.0G  2.9G   74M  98% /mnt/mydir

[aramk@server-C www]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             8.7G  7.2G  1.1G  87% /
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
myserver:/mypath
                      2.9G  2.8G   74M  98% /mnt/mydir

[aramk@server-C confluence]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             8.7G  7.2G  1.1G  87% /
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
myserver:/mypath
                      2.5G  2.4G   74M  98% /mnt/mydir

[aramk@server-C ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             8.7G  7.2G  1.1G  87% /
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
myserver:/mypath
                      2.3G  2.3G  1.0M 100% /mnt/mydir

I was forced to use this method to remove some files, but then I removed too much and it shrank again from 3GB to 2.4GB. The original drive was 10GB and shrank down to 6GB and then to 3GB as I removed unnecessary files. Any ideas?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '13 at 01:00

It turned out to be process issue. The backup snapshots saved in a .zhs directory in the mounted directory were not appearing under the disk usage but were taking up space from the 10GB quota. I'll leave this answer here in case others have a similar issue, but it seems pretty isolated.

Mounted directory is shrinking

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