I had a very similar problem to yours. Here is my problem and solution
from some months ago.
===========Old Problem letter===================================
My / partition is filled, but the amount of data in it is minimal, to wit:
/dev/hda1 3.7G 3.6G 0 100% /
/dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3
/dev/hda4 22G 17G 4.0G 81% /mnt/hda4
/dev/hdb1 27G 18G 7.9G 69% /mnt/hdb1
/dev/hdc1 71G 46G 21G 68% /mnt/hdc1
[root@jhammer6 /]# du -sh auto bin boot dev etc initrd install lib lost+found root
sbin shlib test
tmp
2.0k auto
5.9M bin
3.3M boot
15k dev
3.6M etc
1.0k initrd
11k install
44M lib
12k lost+found
46M root
6.2M sbin
208k shlib
7.0k test
80M tmp
So, du reports less than 200 M bytes but df reports 3.6 gigs in use.
Obviously, I do not have gigs of data on the root partition.
============End Old Problem letter=================================
I finally answered my own question.
==================Old Solution letter==========================================
I finally found out where my hard drive memory was going to on my root
drive /. (Or, I may have rediscovered where those missing bytes are. Ain't
it nice to mature.)
I have a root hard drive with about 3 gigs of space on it. It got filled
up even though I have moved almost everything off it. Very puzzling.
Turns out, I have a mnt point for a backupdrive, /mnt/hdc1, on the root
drive. This backup is automatic. If the backup drive isn't mounted, the
backup program, cp -au, just merrily makes a directory /mnt/hdc1 on my
root drive /, and writes to it, thus filling up the / drive eventually.
This is a tough thing to find out because if you mount the backup drive,
which is the default configuration, you don't see the extra directory
/mnt/hdc1.
Well, lucky I usually keep an extra OS on my system, so I can boot into
it and play around with my usual / directory. (Now, where will I use
that 80 gig drive I just bought to replace my old "defective" hard drive.)
====================End of old Solution letter===================================
Isn't it nice using just text email (mutt) so it is simple to keep and
search old email?
Joel
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote:
> I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't
> figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up
> again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different
> answers from different tools as well :
>
> df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk.
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120 194316 100% /home
>
> But when I try to find where it has gone with du,
>
> du -k /home yields :
>
> 5708312 .
>
> total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30?
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