Tom,
I'm almost getting what you're saying, but I'm a little confused as to
what you mean when you say that after unmounting the filesystem and do an
"ls" if it is not empty then I've found the missing space.
Mark
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tom Schutter wrote:
> 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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> > usage.txt Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> > Encoding: BASE64
>
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> Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)
>
