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Subject: Re: gateway NAT settings lost
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On Friday 26 September 2008 15:14:21 Colin Brace wrote:
> Thanks Mel,  "gateway_enable" was what I was missing.

You're very welcome.


> For totals:
>
> $ sudo du -hc -depth=1 boot cdrom home lib libexec rescue sbin bin
> compat dist etc lib proc root
>  91M    boot
> 2.0K    cdrom
>   0B    home
> 5.4M    lib
> 170K    libexec
> 3.6M    rescue
> 5.0M    sbin
> 986K    bin
>   0B    compat
> 2.0K    dist
> 2.1M    etc
> 5.4M    lib
> 2.0K    proc
>  52K    root
> 114M    total
>
> It looks as though there is 375MB "hidden" somewhere... but where?

The obvious a file in /, possibly a core dump.
The less obvious, an open but deleted file.
Even less obvious, a file in /tmp created in single user mode, without /tmp 
mounted.

My money is on option 2:
fstat -f / |sort -rnk 8|head

will show you the largest open files on the root partition.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.