strange du behaviour
hi folks,
trying to pare down the system on my poor overburdened laptop, and
using du to help me diagnose. I had some source files in /root which
I have since deleted, but I am getting this strange behaviour.
so from /root I try:
hplaptop:~# du -sh ./
1020K .
but check this out:
[root@hplaptop<517>/home/matt]$ du -sh /*
4.0K /anarreshome
2.6M /bin
9.0M /boot
4.0K /cdrom
100K /dev
16M /etc
4.0K /floppy
430M /home
4.0K /initrd
28M /lib
4.0K /local
208K /lost+found
16K /mnt
4.0K /opt
du: `/proc': No such file or directory
98M /root
3.0M /sbin
168K /tmp
1.4G /usr
136M /var
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old
I don't udnerstand why the second command gives a size of 98M for the
directory /root. Is this a sign that something's wrong which I should
try to fix?
Maybe I should say that my hard drive was WAY too full for a while --
I booted up this morning, noticed it was at 99% (!!!!!) and have now
pared it down -- but maybe there was some trouble due to the earlier
crowding?
anyway, thanks as always,
matt
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