On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> 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.
Maybe there's a process with an open filehandle somewhere? Try
fuser -m /
to get a list of pids that are using root... perhaps one of them has a
big open file that you've removed, but whose space won't be reclaimed
until the process closes the filehandle.
