Chris Have a poke around for hidden ".trash" folders, particularly on mounted media such as USB/Firewire hard drives. I have found that Ubuntu has a habit of creating these on such volumes and they do not appear to get emptied by the usual processes. I have often thought I had deleted files then realised that my disc space had not increased as a result, it was always a hidden trash file that was the culprit. Manually deleting the files from the trash files usually gets rid of them.
It may be the large volume you have at /media? that is hiding such a file. I'm not sure why that "hidden" data wiuld not be seen by df and du though? HTH Stu ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: British Ubuntu Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 3 January, 2008 12:49:13 PM Subject: [ubuntu-uk] df and du give different results Help! I'm running a Dapper webserver and I'm having terrible problems with du and df giving different results: df -h gives me..... Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root 29G 27G 347M 99% / varrun 252M 52K 252M 1% /var/run varlock 252M 4.0K 252M 1% /var/lock udev 252M 52K 252M 1% /dev devshm 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm //172.18.0.13/linuxbackups 1.4T 710G 671G 52% /media/netbackup /dev/sda5 228M 14M 203M 7% /boot sudo du -hs /* gives me..... 3.1M /bin 9.4M /boot 0 /cdrom 172K /dev 2.6M /etc 39M /home 4.0K /initrd 0 /initrd.img 76M /lib 48K /lost+found 263G /media 4.0K /mnt 4.0K /opt 514M /proc 20K /root 8.1M /sbin 4.0K /srv 0 /sys 12K /tmp 263M /usr 14G /var 0 /vmlinuz Now that just doesn't add up. I wondered if it might be a problem with open files, so I've tried lsof | grep deleted and lsof | grep DEL They showed Apache2 and MySQL had some files open so I restarted them. This didn't help so I restarted the server. Still no joy!! Please help me :-O Chris -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com
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