no space left?

[Ben Steeves]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:47:05 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) <koala at dg21.com> wrote:
> [root at fileserver /]# du -xs
>  3143225 .
>  God! You see the "du" shows the / partition only used 3.0G but "df" shows
> ALL 20G have been used! What is going on? What should I do to free the
> spaces?

That du command is only showing you what's being used in the current
directory.  What you want is: "du -shx /"
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