Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:12:01 +0300 From: c0re <nr1c0re@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full Message-ID: <AANLkTikmv4mcaPiYBcuB-BPOGdAe0xUm7uhhQDgjQaNK@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D25ACE6.2010703@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <AANLkTi=VPzjgviv2fkqv-JonQh24Cz20%2BiHxvQ5at4G4@mail.gmail.com> <4D25ACE6.2010703@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>: > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >> # df -h >> Filesystem =A0 =A0 Size =A0 =A0Used =A0 Avail Capacity =A0Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a =A0 =A0496M =A0 =A0466M =A0 -9.8M =A0 102% =A0 =A0/ >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -hxd 1 / >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/.snap >> 512B =A0 =A0/dev >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/tmp >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/usr >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/var >> 1.9M =A0 =A0/etc >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/cdrom >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/dist >> 1.0M =A0 =A0/bin >> 131M =A0 =A0/boot >> =A010M =A0 =A0/lib >> 356K =A0 =A0/libexec >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/media >> =A012K =A0 =A0/mnt >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/proc >> 7.2M =A0 =A0/rescue >> 296K =A0 =A0/root >> 4.7M =A0 =A0/sbin >> 4.0K =A0 =A0/lost+found >> 157M =A0 =A0/ >> > > Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc? =A0Does the outpu= t > of your du command change if you unmount those partitions? > (It might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1) > lives in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du) > > My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is > usually a mount point. =A0Mounting the partition over them makes those > files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 7 Pri= ory Courtyard > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey =A0 =A0 Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Kent, CT1= 1 9PW > > Nice idea! But I can't check it now - server is may hundred km away and no KVM aviable. Will check it 1 or 2 weeks later. Checked only /tmp - it was ok, no files there after unmount.
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