On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > <andrew.mcglas...@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.
