Re: Help Finding Disk Drive Usage

On 3/30/2007 8:28 AM Josh Carroll said the following:

So why does du report only 2.0 GB of usage while df reports over 6 GB?
Where has my storage gone? Or do I not understand proper usage of du?


If you removed files that still had open file handles (e.g. from
/var/log), they are likely still allocated and showing up in df, but
not du since they're not on the filesystem anymore. Restart any
daemons that you removed log files for, and the space will "show up".
Or a simple reboot should fix things.


Thanks for your reply. It appears that I had pf do some NAT logging to /var/log/alias.log. Although I deleted that file, I had not restarted pf. A 'pfctl -d' followed with a 'pfctl -e' and a little time seems to have restored my disk space according to df..

blacksheep# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 721M 98M 565M 15% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/stripe/user 6.4G 2.0G 3.9G 34% /usr
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /usr/var/named/dev


Thanks,

Drew

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