>>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at  1:51 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> I mounted /dev/dasda1 on /mnt so that du wouldn't traverse all of the mounted 
> file systems....
> 
> Running  du -B 4k /mnt/ | sort +0nr | less - reveals this:
> 
> 54846   /mnt/
> 31154   /mnt/dev

If a "ls -lSrh /mnt/dev/" doesn't show you anything, you'll likely need to look 
at the output from lsof to see if something is allocated in /dev/ that is a 
file and not a device or pipe.


Mark Post

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