1.3G of my /var missing

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Oct 23 23:33:21 PDT 2007


> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space
> remain.
> 
> However doing a
> du -hd 1 /var
> 
> and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so
> there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a
> problem.

	The usual answer is that a process has a unlinked file open
	however as you went to single user this would have eliminated
	this.  Are you swapping to a file on /var?

	Mark
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