[96930] in RedHat Linux List
Re: root filesystem suddenly FULL!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Fri Oct 30 08:30:45 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:30:04 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: Jay Christner <jaymc@goshen.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810280950360.7280-100000@jaymc.goshen.edu>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jay Christner wrote:
>Y'know, we've had this problem too, BUT we've never found a culprit, in
>fact du reports completely different numbers than df. It's weird, I think
>we broke something somewhere, but I can't figure it out. We're running
>Redhat 4.2 with 2.0.29 kernel (upgrading the kernel doesn't help,
>upgrading all the packages to 5.x is too much trouble at this point.)
>-jay
This suddenly rings a bell. If du and df report different disk usages you
could have a peculiar situation such as this.
1) partition X is not mounted, but is normally mounted on /mnt/X
2) someone copies a large number of files into /mnt/X
3) partition X gets mounted, thus hiding the files below.
some people use this to try to hide data since it's only visible when the
partition is unmounted.
try booting into single user mode, unmounting all extra partitions and
looking to see if their mount points are full of data.
-dave
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