6Gb of invisible files, or what?

From: Juha Pahkala (jpahka_at_welho.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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    Sorry about the previous, it had an old mail server address...but the
    question remains...

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    Hello,

    Recently my old home server crashed and I had to get a new one, and
    install debian unstable from scratch. I decided that since my old 5Gb
    root partition was quite full, I'd double the size to 10Gb so I wouldn't
    have problems with that anymore. It took me a while to get the system to
    the same state as the old one but now I have it running smoothly. But
    today I found out, that out of my 10Gb root partition df only shows
    around 300Mb free!

    So, I started looking and trying to find out what took all this disk
    space. But I didn't get very far. As previously, I used du on all the
    directories on root level / to see, which directory was excessively
    large. But using du, I only managed to find a bit under 4Gb of files!
    And now I'm wondering where the difference comes from and what can I do
    about it?

    Can anybody help me here, to free up some disk space, to help me
    understand what's going on?

    Thanks in advance,

    Juhis 

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