Where did my diskspace go?

[Matthew Carpenter]

Not that this is probably your problem, but I notice that even after I clear off hd space, often it takes a while for it to register that fact.  Umounting or rebooting (doing the same thing) generally seems to clear it up.  I just chalked it up to the large degree that Linux caches HD changes.

Just thought I'd chime in.  Hope this is all resolved already.

begin  Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net>
(Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:56:26 -0600)

> I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't
> figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up
> again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different
> answers from different tools as well :
> 
> df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk.
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             38464340  36316120    194316 100% /home
> 
> But when I try to find where it has gone with du,
> 
> du -k /home yields :
> 
>  5708312	.
> 
>  total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30?
> 
> 
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