Today, I looked at my disc free space, after deleting some files.
I found that, after deleting approx. 28M of files, that df reported
the disc as being 93% full. Well, the last time I tried looking,
it was 85% full, just a couple of days ago. I have created a couple
of text files, and read some e-mail. But why was my disc 8% more
full than before?
I searched and searched for where the space was hiding, and could
not find it. I was comparing with the output from the earlier
du -s /some/path/* | sort -gr | head, and couldn't find it.
I did some sync commands, and tried again, and it just looked
like things should be smaller.
Eventually, I rebooted. Now du thinks that my disc is 84% full.
I don't automatically delete /tmp, and it only has 136M in it,
anyway.
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 6081748 1163768 84% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm
At 93%, it must have been about 7098935 blocks used. How did a
reboot free up 1017187 blocks?
$ du --version
du (coreutils) 5.2.1
$ uname -a
Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Mike
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