Hi! Hmm, I'm also sometimes getting such disk usages on my 2,5 GB hdd machine. But you cannot write infinite amounts of data on it when it is in this state... only some dozens of MBytes... maybe this data is just fetched by the linux cache??
Cheers, Stephan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:45 AM Subject: Re: weird 100% disk usage > joey tsai wrote: > >My drive appears to be full via df: > >[corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >/dev/hda1 61M 59M 0 100% / > > > >However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used: > >[corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx / > >23M / > > One possibility is that there is material written in a mount-point directory > such as /usr. When the partition is mounted, the contents of that directory > (if any) will be unavailable. > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C > > "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, > and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom > is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." > James 1:17 > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
