I've heard of that problem before here on the list, but the machine that
"had" this problem only contains one operating system - Mandrake.
but thanks...
after exausting what seemed like every option and possibility I reloaded
that machine this morning and restored the config files. It's running
happily again. Since this wasn't the first time I've seen this anomalous
behavior I dare say I'll see it again one of these days and get another
crack at solving the problem without reloading.
--
Mark
*****
"what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)"
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
>
> >
> > [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 readin
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > ...and du reports it this way:
> >
> > [root@mdw1982 mdw1982]# du -h --max-depth=1 /
>
> > 1.5G /mnt
> > 0 /net
> > 512 /opt
> > 4.0M /tmp
> > 469M /var <-- the critical reading
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > What really has me stuck is the different readings I'm getting on /var.
> > Can any shed a little light on this?
> >
> > Xwc calculated /var and came up with essentially the same answer as du
> > did.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> > *****
>
> Hey Mark, once upon a time I've used Win and Linux on
> the same disk, and learned that FAT sucks...
> I bet you problem resides on the FAT-EXT2-f.s. tools inte
> raction...
> Show us your /etc/fsck, plz?
>
>
>
