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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
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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