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by **Germann Arlingto** » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:27:06

Hi,
I seem to have lost a lot of disk space to no idea what: for example /boot
shows 25MB used, but when all files are listed the total is just 19MB;
/home - 500MB/362MB; /var - 600MB/417MB.
Any idea what is causing this, and how to rectify the problem.
--
G.Arlington
== The more you know, then better you realise how little you really know...
If in doubt type format c:/u/autotest at DOS prompt... and install Linux

by **David Utidjia** » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:46:25

> Hi,
> I seem to have lost a lot of disk space to no idea what: for example
> /boot shows 25MB used, but when all files are listed the total is just
> 19MB; /home - 500MB/362MB; /var - 600MB/417MB. Any idea what is causing
> this, and how to rectify the problem.

Yes I notice a difference between the du and df commands but not as great
as the ones you have. What commands and what options are you using?

-DU-...etc...

by **Germann Arlingto** » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:27:05

On Friday 13 Sep 2002 15:46 in comp.os.linux.admin group someone called

>> Hi,
>> I seem to have lost a lot of disk space to no idea what: for example
>> /boot shows 25MB used, but when all files are listed the total is just
>> 19MB; /home - 500MB/362MB; /var - 600MB/417MB. Any idea what is causing
>> this, and how to rectify the problem.

> Yes I notice a difference between the du and df commands but not as great
> as the ones you have. What commands and what options are you using?

> -DU-...etc...

The above figures came from X (KDE - diskfree and directory properties), du
is not very usefull on / :)
du/df figures follow:
Partition DU DF
/boot 19477 23591
/home 384760 417860
/var 459196 492004

Now, I looked at these figures and they do look much less dramatic then the
ones from gui, I guess it is a usual end of sector/block loss. Thanks for
reminding me about other tools (du/df) available.
--
G.Arlington
== The more you know, then better you realise how little you really know...
If in doubt type format c:/u/autotest at DOS prompt... and install Linux

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