[Gllug] filesystem oddity

[Tethys]

"Daniel Andersson" writes:

>/dev/sda1 on / type reiserfs (rw)

Hssss. Resierfs. Don't trust it. Just MHO, of course...

>(usr, tmp, var and home are mounted on other partitions)
>
>yeah, putting www and ssl in the root might not be the best idea, but..
>
>that only amounts to just under 37MB
>
>where has the rest gone? :)

Are yor other filesystems mounted on top of existing data? If you umount
your /usr, /tmp, /var and /home and try the du again, do you get different
results? The other common cause of this is for a process to be holding a
file open that has been deleted. Thus it won't show up in the directory
listing, but will still be using space on the filesystem.

Tet

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