Sometime in September John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced:
| 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.
Thanks for the suggestions, I especially like the thought on many small
files. In case anyone had any similar problems, this was mine:
I was mounting somethin on /export/data and running a nightly rsync from
computer A to computer B. The problem above was on comuter B. One night I
ran rsync with /export/data unmounted on B. When I noticed the error
/export/data was mounted so du would not traverse into that directory
(since that appeared to be a different file system), and just ignored any
data in that directory. I rewrote my backup scripts to make sure that the
partition was mounted before performing the rsync ;).
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