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From: caroline@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Caroline Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: mysteriously full root partition
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Date: 27 Aug 90 05:47:31 GMT
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I have a root partition on a Sun3 that claims to be 110% full -
actually 7739 out of 7751 kbytes used. Using 'ls -l' and 'du' I
can account for only 6300 kbytes. I have another Sun3 with an
almost identical root partition, which does show only 6300 kbytes
used. I have halted the system and rebooted it to do an 'fsck',
but it still claims to be 110% full.

Has anyone come across something like this before? Any pointers
would be appreciated.

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Caroline Lambert               Department of Geophysics    My employer is not
AA6BA                          Stanford University         responsible for my
caroline@pangea.Stanford.EDU   Stanford, CA 94305          irresponsibilities