--- Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It could be that there are quite a few things that are setting in the
> buffer
> and not commited to the hard drive as yet. This will straighten out
> with
> time or you can do a sync a few times to force it. Or something else
> could
> be happening.
THat's rather doubtful. The most likely cause of this is he's close to
running out of inodes. As Dave Bandel said, the free space on a
filesystem is determined by both the size of the files *AND* the number
of inodes in use. These two factors are linked by the block size used
on that filesystem.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sunday July 08, 2001 2:15 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > There is something strange on my root drive. Namely, df shows most
> > of this partition used up but du shows very little usage.
> >
> > [root@jhammer6 /]# df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1 3.7G 3.0G 487M 86% /
> > /dev/hda4 22G 15G 5.9G 72% /mnt/hda4
> > /dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3
> > /dev/hdb1 27G 13G 13G 50% /mnt/hdb1
> > /dev/hdc1 71G 17G 50G 25% /mnt/hdc1
> >
> > Note that /dev/hda1, / , has 3 gigs of data it. Now, I have moved
> almost
> > everything off root, including home, usr, opt, and bin and made
> symbolic
> > links to them.
> > I wrote a script which runs du -csh against each directory
> > in / except for the mounted partitions.
> > Here is the script:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > cd /
> > for i in `dir -1`
> > do
> > [ "$i" = mnt ] || {
> > du -csh $i | sed '/total/d'
> > }
> > done
> >
> > Here is the output of the above script:
> >
> > 428k System.map
> > 428k System.old
> > 2.0k auto
> > 5.9M bin
> > 3.3M boot
> > 15k dev
> > 3.4M etc
> > 0 home
> > 1.0k initrd
> > 11k install
> > 1.0k junk
> > 41M lib
> > 12k lost+found
> > 0 opt
> > 0 proc
> > 20M root
> > 6.5M sbin
> > 208k shlib
> > 0 tftpboot
> > 1.9M tmp
> > 0 usr
> > 0 var
> > 882k vmlinuz
> > 626k vmlinuz-NoModules
> >
> > Now, I don't see any directories here even remotely approaching a
> gig. I
> > just ran fsck on /dev/hda1, and no errors were reported. So,
> > my question is, what am I missing?
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
> >
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