So I found an approximate 750MB in a directory under the /backup mount point. Removed that and ended up with sane numbers:
grits# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 986M 166M 771M 18% / /dev/sd0k 57.7G 25.9G 29.0G 47% /home /dev/sd0d 3.9G 10.0K 3.7G 0% /tmp /dev/sd0f 5.8G 1.1G 4.4G 21% /usr /dev/sd0g 986M 234M 702M 25% /usr/X11R6 /dev/sd0h 16.8G 35.5M 15.9G 0% /usr/local /dev/sd0j 5.8G 2.0K 5.5G 0% /usr/obj /dev/sd0i 1.9G 2.0K 1.8G 0% /usr/src /dev/sd0e 13.8G 18.8M 13.1G 0% /var /dev/sd1c 440G 306G 112G 73% /backup grits# du -sxh / 166M / On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 5:30 PM Jay Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > For those of us following along, could you post the final disk usage? > > Thanks, > > Jay > > > Thank you Todd. And I'm sorry to Paul for not reading his post more > > thoroughly regarding the mount points. > > > > At some point my rsync script ran while /backup wasn't mounted or > > something. The culprit was there. > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:41 PM Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:32:54 -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > >> > >> > I'm at a loss, I booted in single user mode, ran fsck on /dev/sd0a > and it > >> > shows clean. I still have a large discrepancy between df and du. > >> > >> Did you verify that nothing was hiding under the mount points? For > >> example, when booted in single user mode with only the root partition > >> mounted the /tmp, /home, /var, /usr and /backup directories should > >> be empty. > >> > >> - todd > >> > > > > >
