shlomo solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> writes: > I´m getting disk full messages on /var. According to df, the / partition > (/dev/sda1) is full, but du shows about 90% free space. Kdirstat also shows > 90% free. I tried booting from a live CD and the partition is only about 10% > full. > > Any ideas what´s going on here and how to fix it?
Some possibilities. First of all, if df says there is a problem there likely is one. You should realize that df shows you the disk usage, while du actually goes through the *files that have names* and shows you their sizes in allocated blocks. What is the system doing? If a file is no longer there (some temporary file, or file deleted by an application that still holds a descriptor (before fclose() or equivalent), it will show in df but not in du. Are you downloading anything? Yum? Rsync? Torrent? Try $ sudo lsof | egrep "(DEL|deleted)" - what does it show? Another possibility: how is "du -s" different from "du --apparent-size -s"? Yet another possibility: does du show hidden files or directories? I don't remember but I suspect it doesn't. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
