From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 3 17:43:13 2007 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 6C8B116A418 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:43:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpenman.smithson@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D9B13C4D1 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:43:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpenman.smithson@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so355892nzf for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:43:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=bRxOBfKxykdmJpMvx5+VHpV5K8XJe/H37pAA4rN+eEOOHBMxSTUzef7ZxxM7UfvjDH6+yQqOTg43i594CBuiBipTMMdqdp1Db8kfxSdlbS7AlfE/X37kxMrwWTuATg2d3dezk1fbAPTB3dkAb23lXNNbKIq1JJ9aeM+fJrRwp1U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=UfR3uCgdMBpNrbwcGXxeAlBGBh8OdWYtKbViI42xyV2tNEElqCEe2OQUP4tUDt/XUWiKPthpk+cYDZlx9glhxbi89zmzXtyu+1rbYqar6vAkdVnoGRyLtw3fcT9AvfMJXOVPFtxkUmh8+5mfz2Vr6m6tvBuPWIav3kDCcJFqsdk= Received: by 10.65.116.10 with SMTP id t10mr5510966qbm.1186161417550; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.220.15 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42acc2230708031016r726acd1em5d292c949c9d13d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:16:57 +0100 From: "Jamie Penman-Smithson" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Mystery of increasing disk usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jpenman.smithson@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:43:13 -0000 I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling disk usage on a partition. du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB: $ du -shL /usr 5.9G /usr However, df shows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1f 47G 43G 131M 100% /usr [...] It seems to be eating 3 MB roughly every 4-5 minutes. However, repeated uses of du don't show any increased usage. It only appears in df. defiant:/usr$ du -cksmxL * | sort -rn 6042 total 3015 home 965 obj 777 local 770 jail 376 share 36 lib 32 X11R6 28 bin 19 libexec 15 sbin 15 include 1 tmp 1 ports 1 openssl 1 libdata 1 games 1 compat My first thought is that the du binary is compromised, but I thought that I may be missing something blindingly obvious. Thanks, -- -Jamie L. Penman-Smithson