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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 04:27:53 -0500
From:      "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Missing disk space
Message-ID:  <9610170927.AA18514@iworks.InterWorks.org>

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I recently re-installed FreeBSD from a 2.1.5-RELEASE CD, after
which I immediately upgraded to -current.  I allocated 50MB
for the root partition, which has always been more than enough
with /usr, /home, and /var mounted (or linked to mounted)
partitions.

A du -kx shows:

bash# du -kx /
1       /dev/fd
41      /dev
2       /usr
1       /stand
...
15439   /

for a total of ~15MB.  Looking at df -k tells a different story:

bash# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       49231    45229       64   100%    /
/dev/sd1s1e    504046   359048   104676    77%    /opt/a
/dev/sd1s1f    504046   287618   176106    62%    /opt/b
/dev/sd1s1g    599060    52364   498772    10%    /opt/c
/dev/sd1s1a    504046   441594    22130    95%    /usr
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

Notice there is about 45MB of used disk space for /.  It seems that
"df -k" is showing what the system thinks is there, because I can
easily fill up the root filesystem.  But, I know that I haven't used
that much disk space - manual surfing through / shows the same as
du.

bash# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       49231    45229       64   100%    /
...

bash# dd of=/junk if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=4000 

/: write failed, file system is full
dd: /junk: No space left on device
3969+0 records in
3968+0 records out
4063232 bytes transferred in 1 secs (4063232 bytes/sec)

bash# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       49231    49205    -3912   109%    /
...

Where or where did my disk space go?

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org



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