There's also issues with some OS's and sparse files; check df output vs. du
vs. ls -l output. If they differ that's likely part of it.  I see it all
the time on RHEL.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018, 07:41 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, logical american wrote:
>
> > So what is taking up 53.9 megs of data and why isn't this visible to the
> > super user?
> >
> > Am I too trusting?
>
> Randall,
>
>    Nope. Some time in the recent past /tmp was taken over by tmpfs, in
> memory. On this host it's,
> tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,mode=1777)
> while in /etc/fstab it's still shown as,
> /dev/sda9        /tmp             ext3        defaults         1   2
>
>    It puzzled me until I learned about the change.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
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