Hello, My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used.
I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and it says that it is using less than 8 MB out of about 50 MB. So, why is that df says something different from du? I'd appreciate any hint. The machine is running slink with kernel 2.0.36. -- Pedro I. Sanchez # df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 46632 46632 0 100% / /dev/sda3 1981000 272001 1606585 14% /usr /dev/sda5 248847 65 235932 0% /home /dev/sda6 6179782 64679 5795010 1% /usr/local # cd / # du -xs 7494 . # ls -l total 50 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 21 1999 amd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 20 1999 boot drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom 1024 Feb 1 1999 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Oct 5 1999 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17408 Oct 26 06:48 dev drwxr-xr-x 44 root root 3072 Oct 26 08:41 etc drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Feb 1 1999 floppy drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 1024 Sep 20 1999 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 initrd drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 15 1999 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 mnt dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Oct 15 17:30 proc drwx------ 5 root root 1024 Sep 23 1999 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 20 1999 sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 20 1999 tmp -> /usr/local/tmp dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 20 1999 users drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Oct 4 1999 usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 12 14:13 var -> /usr/local/var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 15 1999 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 # find . -xdev -print | xargs ls -l |less I doesn't show any files taking up any significant amount of space.