You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!!
After reading everything, I decided I probably needed to fsck at minimum, so I just rebooted. Turned out the fsck ran automatically, the disk was corrupted, and now, instead of 100% full at 36 Gb, I get (Ta da!) Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 5776132 30734304 16% /home Thanks again. It's just a shame I had to reset my uptime, I hadn't booted since May. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:49:43 -0600 Jack Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/02 18:56, 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? > > ================================ > Here's some info on du/df from Sun support site - sunsolve. While > it is from Sun, I believe the explanations are applicable. > > This is supposed to be an open link on sunsolve. Contact me if > it's not. > WHITE PAPER ID: 26928 > SYNOPSIS: du and df Differences (originally published 8/91) > DETAIL DESCRIPTION: > > >http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/private-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0&doc=fwpaper%2F26928&display=plain -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
