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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 05:54:16 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth 
<martinh@solid-state-logic.com> wrote:

> Paul
>
> who are you running du as?
> du will only report file sizes that it has access to. So if you don't run
> du as root you can get odd results...
>
Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  I'm running both df and du as root. 
I ssh in to the box using my account and then su to root.  (I don't allow 
root to ssh in to any of my boxes.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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