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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!dciteleport.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.64.0.76!lenny.rosenet.net!usenet From: dsims@rosenet.net (Dave Sims) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: DF reporting incorrect stats Date: 9 Dec 1996 18:03:06 GMT Organization: Rosenet, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <58hk8q$20b@lenny.rosenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ii.rosenet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 I recently upgraded my news server to BSDI 2.1. Along with the upgrade I added 4gigs of storage. I now have two 4 gig drives. My partitions and mount points are as follows Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49199 4757 41982 10% / /dev/sd0h 397183 134937 242386 36% /usr /dev/sd0g 98911 64768 29197 69% /var /dev/sd0f 198335 109726 78692 58% /var/news /dev/sd0e 2558100 778603 1651592 32% /var/news/spool /dev/sd1a 3935818 2145877 1593150 57% /var/news/spool/alt mfs:21 15871 1 15076 0% /tmp The problem is that the /var/news partition appears to fill up. But in it really doesn't. During the day the the Capacity reduces because of history files, etc getting larger. Eventually the partition reaches 100%. When I execute du to see what is filling up the partition, as the news files aren't close in size to causing it to be full, it returns the actual (or what I believe to be actual) disk usage. DU says that the partition is not full! The only solution to this is to reboot! When I reboot the partion capacity drops to about 58%. What could be causing the incorrect disk useage reported by DF. INN seems to be working ok except for this annoying problem. Any help would make for a joyous season.