> Currently, no software has been installed in /usr/local or no files have > been copied in that partition. A few empty directories have been created > by some package installation scripts. > > When I check using cfdisk, cfdisk shows the size of /usr/local as being > correct: 2.5Gb. > > When I check using df, here is what I get: > > (df) > /dev/hda9 2166280 646320 1409920 32% /usr/local as another poster said, it could be a bad-blocks problem, but i doubt it. they're not very common on drives that work properly :o) by default, a certain amount of space is reserved for root. that's usually 5% which explains the problem almost completely. tune2fs can change that if you're worried. there is another posibility. sometimes a deleted file doesn't free its space when you crash your computer. when you next run fsck, it should be corrected. cheers :) -- We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
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