It could be that there are quite a few things that are setting in the buffer
and not commited to the hard drive as yet. This will straighten out with
time or you can do a sync a few times to force it. Or something else could
be happening.
Jim
On Sunday July 08, 2001 2:15 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> There is something strange on my root drive. Namely, df shows most
> of this partition used up but du shows very little usage.
>
> [root@jhammer6 /]# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 3.7G 3.0G 487M 86% /
> /dev/hda4 22G 15G 5.9G 72% /mnt/hda4
> /dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3
> /dev/hdb1 27G 13G 13G 50% /mnt/hdb1
> /dev/hdc1 71G 17G 50G 25% /mnt/hdc1
>
> Note that /dev/hda1, / , has 3 gigs of data it. Now, I have moved almost
> everything off root, including home, usr, opt, and bin and made symbolic
> links to them.
> I wrote a script which runs du -csh against each directory
> in / except for the mounted partitions.
> Here is the script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /
> for i in `dir -1`
> do
> [ "$i" = mnt ] || {
> du -csh $i | sed '/total/d'
> }
> done
>
> Here is the output of the above script:
>
> 428k System.map
> 428k System.old
> 2.0k auto
> 5.9M bin
> 3.3M boot
> 15k dev
> 3.4M etc
> 0 home
> 1.0k initrd
> 11k install
> 1.0k junk
> 41M lib
> 12k lost+found
> 0 opt
> 0 proc
> 20M root
> 6.5M sbin
> 208k shlib
> 0 tftpboot
> 1.9M tmp
> 0 usr
> 0 var
> 882k vmlinuz
> 626k vmlinuz-NoModules
>
> Now, I don't see any directories here even remotely approaching a gig. I
> just ran fsck on /dev/hda1, and no errors were reported. So,
> my question is, what am I missing?
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
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