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Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree



On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:28:20 -0400
John Harrold <jmh17@pitt.edu> wrote:

>I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem
>is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and
>run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I
>would expect. Now If I run 'df' it says the partition is 100% full. Is
>there any way to check for unlinked files which are taking up space or
>something like that? I'm quite baffled here. This computer is running
>sarge.
>

Try doing something like 'find / -mount -size +500000k -print' (then change
+5000000k to +1000000k) and so on until you find the culprit(s).

HTH

-- 
Cheers,
Trey

(1) Everything depends.
(2) Nothing is always.
(3) Everything is sometimes.

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2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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