Re: space usage misreported?

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

<quote who="Adrian Bolzan">
> Hello,
>

> where did the other 1.6GB go?

did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted
data is not actually freed up until the process that
was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure
all processes exit cleanly is to go to runlevel 1
and back to runlevel2 (init 1). you'll need
console access to do this, all processes and networking
will be shut down when going to single user(or
you can modify the init scripts to come right back
to runlevel 2).

or you can fart around with fuser and lsof to track
down what may be using files on /var which may
be holding up the system. if all else fails unmount
the partition and run a fsck on it.

nate