Re: disk space / where did it go
The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden
one) from the list you passed to du?
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
> I'm completely stumped by this one. I have a server that is running
> Potato, and it keeps telling me it is out of disk space. That makes
> sense when running df:
>
> $ df -m
> Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 182 170 3 98% /
> /dev/hda3 1922 489 1336 27% /home
> /dev/hda6 1753 182 1481 11% /usr
>
> When I try to find out where all the space is being used, I really don't
> find anything.
>
> $ cd /
> $ du -ms bin boot dev etc initrd lib lost+found mnt root sbin tmp var
> 2 bin
> 0 boot
> 0 dev
> 3 etc
> 0 initrd
> 6 lib
> 0 lost+found
> 0 mnt
> 0 root
> 2 sbin
> 0 tmp
> 13 var
>
> That doesn't even come close to adding up to 170M. What am I missing
> here? I have been purging log files, but as du is reporting, I've
> already purged most of the logs.
>
> Obviously I'm missing something. If this is a newbie question, please
> point me in the right direction.
>
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> Jason Stechschulte
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