The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden one) from the list you passed to du?
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > I'm completely stumped by this one. I have a server that is running > Potato, and it keeps telling me it is out of disk space. That makes > sense when running df: > > $ df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 182 170 3 98% / > /dev/hda3 1922 489 1336 27% /home > /dev/hda6 1753 182 1481 11% /usr > > When I try to find out where all the space is being used, I really don't > find anything. > > $ cd / > $ du -ms bin boot dev etc initrd lib lost+found mnt root sbin tmp var > 2 bin > 0 boot > 0 dev > 3 etc > 0 initrd > 6 lib > 0 lost+found > 0 mnt > 0 root > 2 sbin > 0 tmp > 13 var > > That doesn't even come close to adding up to 170M. What am I missing > here? I have been purging log files, but as du is reporting, I've > already purged most of the logs. > > Obviously I'm missing something. If this is a newbie question, please > point me in the right direction. > > -- > Jason Stechschulte > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be > visually distinct. > -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
