On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:47:05 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) <koala@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > [root@fileserver /]# du -xs > 3143225 . > God! You see the "du" shows the / partition only used 3.0G but "df" shows > ALL 20G have been used! What is going on? What should I do to free the > spaces? That du command is only showing you what's being used in the current directory. What you want is: "du -shx /" -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves