2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk>:
> On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote:
>> # df -h
>> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    /
>>
>> So it's full.
>>
>> But by du it's not appeared to be full
>>
>>
>> # du -hxd 1 /
>> 2.0K    /.snap
>> 512B    /dev
>> 2.0K    /tmp
>> 2.0K    /usr
>> 2.0K    /var
>> 1.9M    /etc
>> 2.0K    /cdrom
>> 2.0K    /dist
>> 1.0M    /bin
>> 131M    /boot
>>  10M    /lib
>> 356K    /libexec
>> 2.0K    /media
>>  12K    /mnt
>> 2.0K    /proc
>> 7.2M    /rescue
>> 296K    /root
>> 4.7M    /sbin
>> 4.0K    /lost+found
>> 157M    /
>>
>
> Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc?  Does the output
> of your du command change if you unmount those partitions?
> (It might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1)
> lives in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du)
>
> My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is
> usually a mount point.  Mounting the partition over them makes those
> files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive.
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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>

Nice idea! But I can't check it now - server is may hundred km away
and no KVM aviable. Will check it 1 or 2 weeks later. Checked only
/tmp - it was ok, no files there after unmount.
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