2010/1/13 William John Murray <bill.mur...@stfc.ac.uk>: > > Hello all, > Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk > partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: > > /dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% / > > However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it > add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various > others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under > liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used. > So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is > out of space. > Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.
I often find that it's files which are deleted, that are still held open. e.g. rotated logs where the owning process has not been reloaded. Try: lsof | grep deleted That should show up and deleted files still open. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
