/ file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

[Matthew Seaman]

On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote:
> # df -h
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    /
> 
> So it's full.
> 
> But by du it's not appeared to be full
> 
> 
> # du -hxd 1 /
> 2.0K    /.snap
> 512B    /dev
> 2.0K    /tmp
> 2.0K    /usr
> 2.0K    /var
> 1.9M    /etc
> 2.0K    /cdrom
> 2.0K    /dist
> 1.0M    /bin
> 131M    /boot
>  10M    /lib
> 356K    /libexec
> 2.0K    /media
>  12K    /mnt
> 2.0K    /proc
> 7.2M    /rescue
> 296K    /root
> 4.7M    /sbin
> 4.0K    /lost+found
> 157M    /
> 

Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc?  Does the output
of your du command change if you unmount those partitions?
(It might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1)
lives in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du)

My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is
usually a mount point.  Mounting the partition over them makes those
files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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