Re: /dev/hda full - cannot find used space

[Rishi <rishi.forums@gmail.com>]

> I have recently noticed that the hda partition is full. The problem  
> is that I
> can't see where the space has gone. From the du listings, I can  
> account for
> maybe 70MB on hda, but nowhere near 250MB.
>
> I would be grateful for any help or suggestions.

This happened to me once when I was doing a backup. My script wasn't  
configured to do proper checks and thus the / partition got full.

Try this and see if it helps locating the extra usage.

mkdir /mnt/slash
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/slash
du -chs /mnt/slash/*


Rishi