Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:11:27 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: josh.carroll@psualum.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help Finding Disk Drive Usage Message-ID: <460D36AF.9050406@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <8cb6106e0703300828x6da0177dy6329f5009c9c0bb5@mail.gmail.com> References: <460D212F.6080203@mykitchentable.net> <8cb6106e0703300828x6da0177dy6329f5009c9c0bb5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/30/2007 8:28 AM Josh Carroll said the following: >> So why does du report only 2.0 GB of usage while df reports over 6 GB? >> Where has my storage gone? Or do I not understand proper usage of du? > > > If you removed files that still had open file handles (e.g. from > /var/log), they are likely still allocated and showing up in df, but > not du since they're not on the filesystem anymore. Restart any > daemons that you removed log files for, and the space will "show up". > Or a simple reboot should fix things. Thanks for your reply. It appears that I had pf do some NAT logging to /var/log/alias.log. Although I deleted that file, I had not restarted pf. A 'pfctl -d' followed with a 'pfctl -e' and a little time seems to have restored my disk space according to df.. blacksheep# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 721M 98M 565M 15% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/stripe/user 6.4G 2.0G 3.9G 34% /usr devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /usr/var/named/dev Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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