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conandor Joined: May 08, 2008 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted May 08, 2008 at 9:12:49 AM Subject: where the disk space go? i du -hd on the root directory and it came back show the / use only 4.2G but df showing me i have 16G of space and its almost fully use where is the rest of the space go to if it is not in / ? here part of the screenshot Code: bash-3.00$ du -hd / . . . 79M ./export/home/mydirec 137M ./export/home 137M ./export 1K ./vol 4.2G . bash-3.00$ df -ah Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 16G 15G 518M 97% / /devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab swap 813M 992K 812M 1% /etc/svc/volatile objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd swap 512M 4.8M 507M 1% /tmp swap 812M 24K 812M 1% /var/run bash-3.00$ pwd / bash-3.00$
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Khabi Joined Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 110 Other Topics	Posted: May 12, 2008 7:27:40 PM Subject: where the disk space go? by chance have you changed a log file or something by doing a echo ' ' > /var/log/somefile or anything of the like? I've seen it happen to a few people before where they modify a log file that is still in use by an application and the application keeps an open file handler and ends up showing diskspace wrong. If thats the case you can restart the application and it will release it and the diskspace will show correctly. (Once I've even seen logrotate do this) I've never seen the -d flag to du either, and I don't see it on my man page for it. Normally I use "du -h --max-depth=1" you might want to give that a shot, it makes things easier as far as I've seen.
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