Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:58:56 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: mike johnson <ahze@baddog.yi.org> Cc: Eric Brueggmann <brueggma@snoopie.yi.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: du/df Message-ID: <20001024225856.A27452@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20001025050755.62F981D9F@baddog.yi.org>; from ahze@baddog.yi.org on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:07:54AM -0400 References: <20001025050755.62F981D9F@baddog.yi.org>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:07:54AM -0400, mike johnson wrote: > > theres some things in /var that are not readable by normal users , > you might want to try > du -hc /var |grep total , or du -sh /var as root .. > If you alraedy arent. The most probable cause in normal operation is that a large file which is still opened was unlinked. Thus du won't find it (it's not in any directory anymore), but it is still in the filesystem. Softupdates could also cause this, but only for a relativly sort time. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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