i had that problem before but the wasted space is not as big as that. i simply adjusted the Reserved blocks percentage using tune2fs, which was set to 5% of the total partition space by default.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Michael Tinsay <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip. With it I dug a little deeper into the filesystem... > The / partition is an ext3 fs with 4KB blocksize (accdg to dumpe2fs). I > have 76,064 files in this partition. Assuming that I'm wasting about 1 > block per file, it would equate to 297MB of wasted space. While it is a big > pile of wasted space, it is still not 1.6GB -- there's still 1.3GB that I > can't account for. > > --- mike t. > > ________________________________ > From: Randell <[email protected]> > To: Michael Tinsay <[email protected]>; Philippine Linux Users' Group > (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011, 21:02 > Subject: Re: [plug] MISSING: 1.6GB in root > > Here's an explanation I found in the nets: > > difference between disk usage (du) and free blocks displayer (df) > if a file makes use of 2KB of 1 MB block > du will display that the file had used only 2KB > but df would display that 1 MB had been used as its displaying only the free > blocks available, > even if 1 byte is used in 1MB free block, the free block is no more a free > block and its used. > > Source: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/29223-sco-unix-disk-space.html > -- > Randell > http://nullpointer.ph/ > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michael Tinsay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. > > In one of my servers, "df -h" produces: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 3.7G 3.7G 0 100% / > varrun 3.0G 104K 3.0G 1% /var/run > varlock 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /var/lock > udev 3.0G 108K 3.0G 1% /dev > devshm 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/md1 3.7G 288M 3.3G 9% /var > Note that / is 100% used up (3.7GB). > But if a run (as root) "du -chxP /", the total it gives me is only 2.1GB. > Where could the 1.6GB difference be? > > --- mike t. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
