Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

From: Angelo Bertolli (angelo_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 09/13/05

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To: Juha Pahkala <jpahka@welho.com>

    Juha Pahkala wrote:

    > 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?

    Can you show us your df output? You can get a list of processes which
    have files open by using fuser -m / (as the case may be that a process
    had a file open before it was rm'd) 

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