On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:28:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in > to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the "du" > command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of > old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90% of > the partition. So I cd'd over to /var, and got this rather surprising set > of results: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var]$ sudo du -sh > 395M . > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var]$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 484M 126M 320M 28% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1f 269G 40G 207G 16% /data > /dev/ad4s1d 9.7G 7.2G 1.7G 81% /usr > /dev/ad4s1e 1.9G 1.6G 173M 90% /var > > These wildly different results have me confused. How in the world can there > be a ~1.2GB difference between the disk space in use as reported by these > two tools? Which is right? More importantly, how do I fix this?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"