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:

    > Angelo Bertolli wrote:
    >
    >> Oliver Elphick wrote:
    >>
    >>> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:44 +0300, Juha Pahkala wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>> 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?
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Do you have any extra partitions mounted? If so, any contents of the
    >>> mount directories will be concealed (but will still take space, of
    >>> course).
    >>>
    >>>
    >> It's the other way around. He's getting the problem with df (which
    >> is by partition), and not with du.
    >>
    >>
    > No, actually Oliver was 100% correct, I somehow had some dvb
    > recordings under one of my nfs mount points and they took up the space
    > that didn't show up using du.

    Ok, I guess I don't understand why df would report such high disk
    usage. Does it have something to do with nfs caching data locally or
    something? 

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