Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lost space - how to find it? Message-ID: <200001130628.HAA71823@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <85jps7$20vd$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Only what shows up under du is on the root fs. In this case /var is on
> / but /var/local, /var/tmp, etc. is on a different partition.
/usr, too, I assume.
BTW, it would have been better to make /var a separate
partition, IMO. For example, 50 Mbyte for / is enough
if you have /var and /tmp somewhere else.
> I just tried lsof but don't see anything obvious. Any ideas? Could
> the fs get into such a state to report this wrong somehow?
Possible, but not very probable. Just to make sure, you
could boot into single-user mode and run fsck manually on
that partition.
Did you newfs that filesystem with any unusual parameters?
Are you using soft-updates? What's the output of ``df -ki''?
Note that "du" is not perfectly accurate, and I suspect that
it might have difficulties with hardlinks (I'm not sure),
but all of that does not explain the large difference that
you described. To be honest, I have no idea what it could
be.
>> >1 /nonexistent
Why did you create that? It is used in some passwd records
of pseudo users, and its purpose is to not exist, actually.
:-)
Regards
Oliver
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