Tom,
Thanks for that clearification. that was the missing peice that I needed
to help me understand just "how" a file could be hiding under a mount
point.
Mark
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Tom Schutter wrote:
> umount /var
> ls /var
>
> /var should be empty. If you see files in /var after the umount, then
> they are not accessable when /var is mounted. When /var is mounted,
> they will not be seen by ls or du. But they are always "seen" by df.
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Name: usage.txt
> > > > usage.txt Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> > > > Encoding: BASE64
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > > Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)
> > >
>
> --
> Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)
>
