[NTLUG:Discuss] disk space mystery

[Kevin Brannen]

Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> 
> 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??)

Eric,

Thanks for the try, but no.  I had the system in singer-user mode when I
did the fsck; and yes, I've rebooted and deleted everything in /tmp too.

Still no luck.  If it weren't root, it'd be so easy, reformat &
restore...

Kevin