Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:28:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the du command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the du command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread alex
After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the du command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90% of

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
These wildly different results have me confused. How in the world can there be a ~1.2GB difference between the disk space in use as reported by these two tools? Which is right? More importantly, how do I fix this? 1) there is 1.2GB files open but deleted 2) there are snapshots i don't know

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the du command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90% of the you forgot to restart apache and qmail. and they keep these logs open.