well....that makes sense...
--
Mark
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense to me. This morning
> > one of the leg messages reported that there wasn't any more space left on
> > /var. that's ok cause it wasn't any big deal to fix that. what I did have
> > a problem with is the difference free space that is being reported by two
> > different programs on the system.
> >
> > df reports it this way:
> >
> > [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda5 494M 156M 338M 32% /
> > /dev/hda8 7.3G 1.1G 6.2G 16% /home
> > /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.4G 297M 82% /mnt/win_c
> > /dev/hdc1 652M 161M 491M 25% /mnt/win_c2
> > /dev/hdc5 1.8G 92k 1.8G 0% /mnt/win_d
> > /dev/hda7 2.9G 2.1G 798M 73% /usr
> > /dev/hdc6 787M 757M 30M 96% /var <-- the critical reading
> > /proc/bus/usb 197M 197M 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > ...and du reports it this way:
> >
> > [root@mdw1982 mdw1982]# du -h --max-depth=1 /
> > 4.5M /bin
> > 266k /dev
> > 16M /etc
> > 36M /lib
> > 1.5G /mnt
> > 0 /net
> > 512 /opt
> > 4.0M /tmp
> > 469M /var <-- the critical reading
> > 2.3G /usr
> > 6.0M /boot
> > 1.1G /home
> > 0 /misc
> > 1.0k /proc
> > 6.7M /sbin
> > 49M /root
> > 512 /.automount
> > 512 /.gnome_private
> > 1.0k /.gnome
> > 5.6G /
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > What really has me stuck is the different readings I'm getting on /var.
>
> Well, I can tell you that df see the FISICAL partitionsm and
> du see the USED space...
> If ther's any links on the /var, the du will traversal all
> files on them and count the size...
> See this.
>
>
