Who is using up my root partition?
Hello,
My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files
that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to
/usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used.
I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and
it says that it is using less than 8 MB out of about 50 MB. So, why is
that df says something different from du?
I'd appreciate any hint. The machine is running slink with kernel
2.0.36.
--
Pedro I. Sanchez
# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 46632 46632 0 100% /
/dev/sda3 1981000 272001 1606585 14% /usr
/dev/sda5 248847 65 235932 0% /home
/dev/sda6 6179782 64679 5795010 1% /usr/local
# cd /
# du -xs
7494 .
# ls -l
total 50
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 21 1999 amd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 20 1999 boot
drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom 1024 Feb 1 1999 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Oct 5 1999 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17408 Oct 26 06:48 dev
drwxr-xr-x 44 root root 3072 Oct 26 08:41 etc
drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Feb 1 1999 floppy
drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 1024 Sep 20 1999 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 15 1999 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Oct 15 17:30 proc
drwx------ 5 root root 1024 Sep 23 1999 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 sbin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 20 1999 tmp ->
/usr/local/tmp
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 20 1999 users
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Oct 4 1999 usr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 12 14:13 var ->
/usr/local/var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 15 1999 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
# find . -xdev -print | xargs ls -l |less
I doesn't show any files taking up any significant amount of space.
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