On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:15:00AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > found, thankfully. Interesting enough, after the badblocks scan, df now > reports a correct number (I think); > > (df) > /dev/hda9 2403420 20 2281308 1% /usr/local > > (df -ah) > /dev/hda9 2.3G 20k 2.1G 1% /usr/local more then likely you had a large file there which some process had open, then the file was deleted. when an open file is deleted the space is not freed from the filesystem until its closed, but since there is no link du will be unable to see it and thus calculate its disk usage. you you unmounted the filesystem to run badblocks you would have had to kill whatever process was using the file, thus the space was freed. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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