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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:00:13 -0500
From:      Rob Clark <rpclark@tds.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Root filling up (((du & df giving different results)))
Message-ID:  <20030316180013.61be4469.rpclark@tds.net>

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Sorry for first post to group, believe I addressed it incorrectly.
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Version: 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #0: Sat Mar 15 03:38:38 EST 2003

Issue: Root filling up (((du & df giving different results)))

Greetings,

Recently I've noticed a significant increase in the "Capacity" of "/" using df.
However using "du" commands as shown below gives conflicting results with that
of "df".  

i.e.,
# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20
45959   /
...

# df 
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    128990   105842    12830    89%    /
...
 

I've searched through "/" in a desperate attempt to locate a file(s)
that would have contributed this.  I tried copying over a file
larger than 13M to the "/" since finding this, this test failed because of lack
of space in "/". So whether or not the "df" & "du" results conflict, the system
is believing the "/" is almost full.    This began on February 24 once I had
cvsupped and built world to 4.7-PRERELEASE.  Cvsupping and building world to the
4.8-RC resulted in no help, and of course increased it 4%, up from 85%, with the
.old files in "/".

At this point I'm baffled, any help, hints, clues, or commands would be
greatly appreciated to find this invisible/missing file space...or any other
spells or concoctions.

Clear Skies,
Rob

Commands tried:

# df 
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    128990   105842    12830    89%    /
/dev/ad0s1f    257998     1188   236172     1%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1g   7125722  3677522  2878144    56%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e    257998    53310   184050    22%    /var
/dev/ad1s1e  76926344 32235684 38536554    46%    /data
procfs 

# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20
45959   /
12440   /sbin
6332    /modules
6306    /modules.old
4122    /bin
3370    /stand
1366    /etc.old
1366    /etc
544     /boot
290     /etc/mail
290     /etc.old/mail
176     /stand/modules
134     /etc/ssh
134     /etc.old/ssh
120     /root
118     /etc/periodic
118     /etc.old/periodic
114     /etc/defaults
114     /etc.old/defaults
94      /stand/help

# du -s -h *
6.0K    COPYRIGHT
4.0M    bin
544K    boot
2.0K    cdrom
2.0K    cdrom1
  0B    compat
 31G    data
 68K    dev
 68K    dev.old
2.0K    dist
1.3M    etc
1.3M    etc.old
  0B    home
2.0K    iso
3.0M    kernel
3.6M    kernel.GENERIC
3.0M    kernel.old
2.0K    mnt
6.2M    modules
6.2M    modules.old
 23K    proc
120K    root
 12M    sbin
3.3M    stand
  0B    sys
1.2M    tmp
3.5G    usr
 52M    var

# ls -B
.cshrc          data            kernel          sbin
.profile        dev             kernel.GENERIC  stand
COPYRIGHT       dev.old         kernel.old      sys
bin             dist            mnt             tmp
boot            etc             modules         usr
cdrom           etc.old         modules.old     var
cdrom1          home            proc
compat          iso             root
# 






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