From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 6 19:27:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17147 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17142 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-31.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.31]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA02612 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:26:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28041 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:26:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199811070326.VAA28041@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: du vs. df In-reply-to: Message from Johann Visagie of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 17:00:30 +0200." <19981106170030.C13675@cityip.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:26:31 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johann Visagie writes: > On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 at 20:16 SAST, Eddie Fry wrote: > > > > When I run a df -k, /var reports ~132M used. When I > > run du -k /var, I get 33M used. What happened to the > > other 100M? > > > > Probably something obvious, but I've had one hell of a > > day and it's getting late. > > Did you run that 'du' as root? Naw, the problem is Eddie deleted 100M of file(s) that some process still has open. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message