1.3G of my /var missing

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:27:10AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> 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.

Try looking at tunefs(8), particularly the -m flag.  That amount of
space is kept for root (the user).

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