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Re: which files took the space




On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan
> <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
>> It also may have been files in the file system, but where another file
>> system mount hides them....
> 
> What does this mean? Mounts overlapping and hiding other mounts?
> 
> Explain, please.

Yes, this is more likely to happen to the root file system.

Say you have a bunch of files in /boot, but for some reason you have a
/boot partition that wasn't mounted when those files were created ....
then you mount the /normal/ boot partition over it and now the other
files are now hidden from view, but still taking up space.

Cheers
A.


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