On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: > > I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't > > figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up > > again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different > > answers from different tools as well : > > > > df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120 194316 100% /home > > > > But when I try to find where it has gone with du, > > > > du -k /home yields : > > > > 5708312 . > > > > total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? > > Try > > # du -k /home | sort -nr
Maybe you've run out of inodes on /home? WHat does df -i show?? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
