Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:46:11 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: grog@lemis.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing disk space Message-ID: <9610202046.AA25945@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> > Where or where did my disk space go? > > Good question. I can think of several possibilities: > > 1. You used it up, and du is lying. > 2. You have a broken file system, and for some reason you haven't > performed an fsck on the file system since it happened. > 3. (Most likely). You have data on the root file system in /usr or > /opt/*. When you mount the corresponding file system, this data > is no longer accessible, but it's still there, and it can been > seen on NFS mounts. > > I'd suggest going into single user mode (only / mounted) and doing an > fsck. Then check with du again. I suspect that you'll find different > results. Arg, #3 was the culprit. I had data in /usr and mounted over it. I had this happen once a long time ago and should have thought of it :( Thanks for the help! Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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