Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:57:16AM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: /dev/sda5 (/var) = 1.8G total Used (from df) = 1.7G du reports /var = 88M (approx. 0.1G) Hence Used space not reported = 1.7G -0.1 G = 1.69G (but I rounded inaccurately down to 1.6G). is my maths not correct? Your

space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hello, This is the first post to the list so if I am out of line just let me know. We have a small problem here. When using 'df -h' we receive the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / /dev/sda5 1.8G 1.7G

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread nate
quote who=Adrian Bolzan Hello, where did the other 1.6GB go? did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted data is not actually freed up until the process that was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure all processes exit cleanly is to go to runlevel 1 and back to runlevel2

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:26 pm, Adrian Bolzan wrote: [snip] When using 'df -h' we receive the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / /dev/sda5 1.8G 1.7G 104M 95% /var /dev/sda6 610M

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 2:02, ben wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:26 pm, Adrian Bolzan wrote: [snip] When using 'df -h' we receive the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / /dev/sda5 1.8G 1.7G

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
On 12 Dec 2001 at 0:36, nate wrote: quote who=Adrian Bolzan Hello, where did the other 1.6GB go? did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted data is not actually freed up until the process that was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure all processes exit cleanly