On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +0000, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and > it says that it is using less than 8 MB out of about 50 MB. So, why is > that df says something different from du? > > I'd appreciate any hint. The machine is running slink with kernel > 2.0.36.
I had (quite) the same PB on my server in /var/spool, because of wwwoffle: as the server's still in use, the use inodes aren't really reflected through 'df'. Perhaps you've got a process that filled up the / directory without noticed you. BTW did you made a 'bonie' to make a test?: its working by default in /, with a 100MB file. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX enhancements aren't.