Re: Who is using up my root partition?
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +0000, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> 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.
I had (quite) the same PB on my server in /var/spool, because of
wwwoffle: as the server's still in use, the use inodes aren't
really reflected through 'df'.
Perhaps you've got a process that filled up the / directory
without noticed you.
BTW did you made a 'bonie' to make a test?: its working by default
in /, with a 100MB file.
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier <jybarbier@wanadoo.fr>
UNIX enhancements aren't.
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