[Gllug] Disk space anomaly

[Peter Corlett]

On 21 Jan 2009, at 18:44, gunzip wrote:
> 'du' for  each directory under / shows:
[...]
>
> mnt  42.2GB
> proc  4.7GB
[...]

> .... ie. 200GB disk space used. Where did the other 44GB go?

Right up there.

/proc is a virtual filesystem that contains various magic files  
related to processes. It also contains /proc/kcore, which accesses the  
real RAM in your machine. (I guess that you have 4GB of RAM in that  
machine.)

/mnt contains the remote filesystem you mounted. Its size was also  
checked with du.


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