[ale] Weird filesystem behavior

[Ray Knight]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 09:25, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 22:39, Ray Knight wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:11, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > > My server is reporting the following from df:
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/sda5             9.8G  9.6G     0 100% /
> > > /dev/sdb3             941G  175G  718G  20% /bio1
> > > 
> > > But this from du -sh * at /:
> > > /]# du -sh *
> > > 175G   bio1
> > > 
> > > I don't see 9.6 GB being used.  I cannot find any hidden files, and this
> > > server's twin doesn't have this problem.  Any thoughts?  The next step
> > > I'm going to take is to boot off CD and to an 'ls', 'du', and 'df'.
> > > 
> > > TIA!
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Try unmounting /bio1 and running your du command again.  Perhaps you
> > copied something to /bio1 before it was mounted.  
> > 
> > Ray
> 
> Darn!  1st guess, and you got it right!  Apparently my rsync script ran
> while the NFS/SMB service was on the slave server, and copied all the
> data into /bio1 and stored it on the / partition.  
> 
> Thank you, Ray!
> 

The only reason I thought to suggest this, is because I've had it happen
to me!  The voice of experience is always helpful.

Ray


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