Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree (resolved)

2004-09-06 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in September John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced: | I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The | problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I | goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is | about

root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread John Harrold
I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would expect. Now If I run 'df' it says the partition is 100% full. Is

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in September Jan Kesten assaulted the keyboard and produced: Howdy Jan, | Maybe you can use 'du -sh *' in / to look, where the space is gone. | Mostly you can have /var/log filled with some logs etc. It's weird, but /var and the rest of the stuff on the root partition only seem to be

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Harrold wrote: | I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. | The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the | space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are Hi John! Maybe you can use 'du -sh

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:28:20 -0400 John Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
John Harrold wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would expect. Now If I run 'df' it says the partition

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:28:20AM -0400, John Harrold wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would