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



On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of
Elimar Riesebieter told:

> On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of
> John Harrold told:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> $ du-sh | sort -n

Sorry
$ du -s(h|m|k) * | sort -n
        ^ ^ ^
        choose what ever you want ;-)

Elimar


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