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[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 05:54:16 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth 
<martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:

> Paul
>
> who are you running du as?
> du will only report file sizes that it has access to. So if you don't run
> du as root you can get odd results...
>
Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  I'm running both df and du as root. 
I ssh in to the box using my account and then su to root.  (I don't allow 
root to ssh in to any of my boxes.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
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