What does fsck say?
Has the system restarted since this happened?
David Brett wrote:
>
> 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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