df & du are still showing a huge difference. The difference is out by a
factor of 10. The numbers I gave earlier is the present situtation.
david
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> My first guess is that some file was deleted while its file handle was
> being held open for writing by some process. When that happens the file
> can continue to grow indefinitely, but du doesn't see it because it no
> longer has a name listed in the directory.
>
> I've never found a good way to verify this or to query a file by its
> inode (which should still be present in the filesystem table or else the
> writing process wouldn't be able to keep growing the damn thing).
>
>
>
> David Brett wrote:
> >
> > I ran into a problem with my computer yesterday. The hard drive filled
> > up. I was unable to find out what caused this to happen. It cleared
> > itself up when I started to close everything down and delete what files I
> > knew was save.
> >
> > The one thing I did notice was the difference, df and du showed. One of
> > them is out by a factor of 10. Why?
> >
> > df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2 3.0G 1.9G 982M 67% /
> >
> > du -h
> > ...
> >
> > 3.2G /
> >
> > david
> >
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