This really sounds like a suggestion I saw earlier, in that you are
hiding the file with a mount.
Look at /etc/fstab.
Drop to runlevel 1.
Start unmounting filesystems. Do a "ls" on the mount point after
you have unmounted the filesystem. If it is not empty, you have
found your missing space.
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Dean, Nick, Tom, and all,
>
> This is day three with this mystery still loose upon this poor machine and
> I have yet to be able to find anything.
>
> This morning I "think" I managed to narrow things down a bit and taking
> the suggestions given from the list used the searches provided. It would
> appear from the readings I'm getting back from "du" and "df" that the file
> I'm looking for is roughly 187MB in size however I'm unable to find this
> file. I've attached a txt file to this message which contains the results
> of what these two programs report the usage as.
>
> As you all suggested I dropped down to runlevel 1 and ran the suggested
> diagnostics. Everything came back with the filesystem being in perfect
> health. According to reiserfsck there doesn't appear to be anything wrong
> with the system.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Mark
>
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