From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 12:12:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9FE106564A for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nr1c0re@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65598FC17 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvc22 with SMTP id 22so3374737pvc.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:12:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dcaQ6+iZr28Q4Hw0zohtH0o+ol2Y2XcTFVa4j4igumY=; b=jkLnvxxZqEHmQLx6U+hMaIjc/T3O7t1ILUbqN/pi5kSjTqcXT8ilIRBo95nJlv23WP qwkPinLIwhxQWSid4oFg9eUgMn5SBRZKZvnUXzxkKIl0SD0SQDuW4FGLb/E/oQ/NP+xB iuT+kVe+s0QRm2J/cIGNb2JHSsT6E/nsFCq+8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d9AwAXZH7kMD+IJDHLFGU7332KW0x6Wy6dYB53icLyJAej8v4DKZy84L9eRY/ASNe6 5GzVd7yRUrw47BMseJmCfhPocMr65b6TuFMoI2TpG01jhmPywRSn1uXlBEswWhLUfK8a 2vIiuBJcU2uS+5dbDuDCKAsAvNnorRgeSphRY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.139.3 with SMTP id m3mr718164wfd.16.1294315921156; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.58.6 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:12:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D25ACE6.2010703@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4D25ACE6.2010703@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:12:01 +0300 Message-ID: From: c0re To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:12:02 -0000 2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman : > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >> # df -h >> Filesystem =A0 =A0 Size =A0 =A0Used =A0 Avail Capacity =A0Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a =A0 =A0496M =A0 =A0466M =A0 -9.8M =A0 102% =A0 =A0/ >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -hxd 1 / >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/.snap >> 512B =A0 =A0/dev >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/tmp >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/usr >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/var >> 1.9M =A0 =A0/etc >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/cdrom >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/dist >> 1.0M =A0 =A0/bin >> 131M =A0 =A0/boot >> =A010M =A0 =A0/lib >> 356K =A0 =A0/libexec >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/media >> =A012K =A0 =A0/mnt >> 2.0K =A0 =A0/proc >> 7.2M =A0 =A0/rescue >> 296K =A0 =A0/root >> 4.7M =A0 =A0/sbin >> 4.0K =A0 =A0/lost+found >> 157M =A0 =A0/ >> > > Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc? =A0Does the outpu= t > of your du command change if you unmount those partitions? > (It might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1) > lives in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du) > > My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is > usually a mount point. =A0Mounting the partition over them makes those > files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 7 Pri= ory Courtyard > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey =A0 =A0 Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Kent, CT1= 1 9PW > > Nice idea! But I can't check it now - server is may hundred km away and no KVM aviable. Will check it 1 or 2 weeks later. Checked only /tmp - it was ok, no files there after unmount.