From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 22:28:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278E614A16 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA71823; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001130628.HAA71823@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lost space - how to find it? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <85jps7$20vd$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim Tsai wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Only what shows up under du is on the root fs. In this case /var is on > / but /var/local, /var/tmp, etc. is on a different partition. /usr, too, I assume. BTW, it would have been better to make /var a separate partition, IMO. For example, 50 Mbyte for / is enough if you have /var and /tmp somewhere else. > I just tried lsof but don't see anything obvious. Any ideas? Could > the fs get into such a state to report this wrong somehow? Possible, but not very probable. Just to make sure, you could boot into single-user mode and run fsck manually on that partition. Did you newfs that filesystem with any unusual parameters? Are you using soft-updates? What's the output of ``df -ki''? Note that "du" is not perfectly accurate, and I suspect that it might have difficulties with hardlinks (I'm not sure), but all of that does not explain the large difference that you described. To be honest, I have no idea what it could be. >> >1 /nonexistent Why did you create that? It is used in some passwd records of pseudo users, and its purpose is to not exist, actually. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message