Problem solved. Once I mounted hda on /mnt/slash as you suggested, I saw that I now had a directory /mnt/slash/usbdrive (!!)
What happened was that a few weeks ago the external usb drive mounted at /mnt/usbdrive was turned off and unmounted. However, the daily rsync backup script running as root just kept copying the files to be backed up to the directory /mnt/usbdrive . But this time it was on /dev/hda1, not the usb drive at all. Later when the server was rebooted as part of this investigation, the usbdrive auto-remounted, hiding the files in the same location on /dev/hda1 . Of course, I ignored the directory /mnt/usbdrive as being on the external disk when looking for new files. This did the trick: umount /mnt/usbdrive rm -rf /mnt/usbdrive mkdir /mnt/usbdrive mount /mnt/usbdrive Thanks for the help. Nick. --- Rishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When this happens to me it's usually because I've accidentally > > copied files to the root partition before mounting another file > > system. i.e. There may be files 'under' one of your mount points > > that you cannot see because you've mounted the file system on it. > > > > You should be able to check by rebooting into single user, > > unmounting /home, /usr /tmp and /var, and checking that there are > > no files in the mount points themselves. > > Instead of that just re-mount / in another folder ... i.e. > > > mkdir /mnt/slash > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/slash > du -chs /mnt/slash/* > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
