Re: weird 100% disk usage

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

joey tsai wrote:
  >My drive appears to be full via df:
  >[corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h
  >Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  >/dev/hda1              61M   59M     0 100% /
  >
  >However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used:
  >[corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx /
  >23M /
 
One possibility is that there is material written in a mount-point directory
such as /usr.  When the partition is mounted, the contents of that directory
(if any) will be unavailable.

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