On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 21:04, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Instead, he did : mv /opt/arkeia /samba , samba being its own file system > with tons of inodes. This was done in single user mode. The box was then > restarted with no significant messages. I got status reports over the phone. > > After that mv command, the arkeia directory structure disappeared from /opt > as would be expected. However, it never showed up at /samba. df -i still > reports only 50 inodes available on /, out of 98000+, but the files are > nowhere to be found on that file system. > Did he use /opt/arkeia as a mount point? I have seen that happen and it appears that you loose lots of disk space when it is really just covered up by the mount. Prior to restarting the system I would have expected you to see the directory in the new location and the space freed up on the original file system. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines." - Alan Cox
