Finding used space on CentOS

Solution 1:

Often times when something like this happens, it is due to some process keeping filehandles open on deleted (unlinked) files. If this is the case, you can find them by using lsof, for example:

$ sudo lsof +L1
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NLINK    NODE NAME
tuned   869 root    7u   REG  202,1     4096     0 4194380 /tmp/ffiGemRJt (deleted)
$

If you find deleted files are consuming much of your space, then it will probably be necessary to restart the offending process that is keeping the filehandles open.