[YLUG] RHEL connundrum with df and du

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:22:01PM +0000, Simon Alman wrote:
> Arthur Clune wrote:
> >On 2 Nov 2006, at 16:09, Simon Alman wrote:
> >
> >>Well du disagrees, on one system with a full 20GB / parition that df 
> >>shows
> >>to be full, df can only find 3.6GB of files.
> >
> >Is it being mounted twice somewhere? Doing a mount over the top of a 
> >filestore
> >can hide files in this way.
> >
> There's a lot of NFS mounts going on but each "real" partition is only 
> mounted once as far as I am aware. I'll double check tomorrow once I 
> have access to the systems again.
> 
> Thanks for the idea.


Also, can you get the machine to boot from a LiveCD and look at the
filesystem that way? That can elliminate a multitude of potential
problems in one go and ensure that you're looking at exactly what's on
the disk with no interference from anything on the system.

Ewan
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