[NTLUG:Discuss] disk space mystery

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Kevin Brannen writes:
- Umm, which is it?  About 60M or 830M?  Why the descrepency?   Nope,
- nothing in lost+found.  usr, var, home, opt are all on other
- partitions.  /tmp isn't that big.  Yes, I'm doing this all as root, so
- no "permission denied" messages because I can't look into various
- places.
- 
- What am I overlooking?

	A large, unlinked, open file??  Have you tried shutting
the system down, and restarting it to see if the space is
freed?  Any deamons running that might have opened a file
(likely in /tmp) and put a bunch of stuff in it as a temp file
(perhaps informix??)

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