Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:26:31 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: du vs. df Message-ID: <199811070326.VAA28041@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 17:00:30 %2B0200." <19981106170030.C13675@cityip.co.za>
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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
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