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amasidlover
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 Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:46 am Post subject: du results appear anomolous... |
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If I run df my /home partition appears to hae 2.7G of data on it. If I run du -chxs * on /home it reports a total of 2.7G and shows that 2.6G of it is in /home/alex. If I then cd to /home/alex and run du-chxs * it reports a total of 1.0G.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I find out where the other 1.6G is?
Thanks in Adance,
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:49 am Post subject: |
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It's probably in files that begin with a leading dot, so try
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amasidlover
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Ok, du -chs .* gives 2.6G in . and none of the other .* files are of any significant size..
I'm stumped... |
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amasidlover
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I had an idea and tried | Code: | | du -ch --max-depth=1 * |
in /home. Bingo! .xauth is 1G !!
it seems that there is an .nfs file in .xauth/root/alex.alex-masidlover.co.uk which is 1G in size. I have absolutely no idea how or why this has happened since alex.alex-masidlover.co.uk does not and has never resolved to an IP address... |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:19 am Post subject: |
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It could also be a file (like a big download in a browser cache) that has been deleted but is still held open by a running process, so it hasn't been reaped yet. Does this same behavior persist across a reboot?
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