Re: df is reading wrongly
Quoting Patrick Kirk (patrick@kirks.net):
> As part of securing my server, I moved /var and /home to seperate partitions from / All seems to work but df is giving strange results. When I type df, I find a partition which I know to be 88 MB to show as 1.7 Gigs.
>
> Should I worry? The usage info for the / partition is also 500 MB or so out.
I wouldn't mind seeing how you've mounted these partitions,
i.e. your /etc/fstab file. It's interesting that hda4 and hda5
say the same thing. I suppose the output of [c]fdisk would be
helpful too.
Is it possible that the 500MB extra in / is a deleted file(s) that's
still open, so df shows it in use but du can't see it.
Is it too much of a coincidence that 500MB is about what you've moved
from / to the /home partitions.
> PS - df as follows with hda1 "overstuffed" and hda4 "oversized"
>
> /dev/hda1 1.9G 714M 1.1G 38% /
> /dev/hda3 15M 1.2M 13M 8% /boot
> /dev/hda4 1.7G 1.2G 471M 72% /home/debian
> /dev/hda5 1.7G 1.2G 471M 72% /home
> /dev/hda9 7.6M 11k 7.2M 0% /home/tele2
> /dev/hda10 387M 281M 86M 76% /var
Cheers,
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