Same partition different size were reported by hardware browser and df

[Rick Stevens]

Barry Yu wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:16 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> One machine I installed fc3 in a partition where 25 gb was reserved, 
>>> I found that;
>>>
>>> Using hardware browser to see that partition, size 25gb was reported 
>>> ( This is correct size)
>>>
>>> Using df  -h   /dev/hda10;
>>>
>>>   Filesystem      size      used      Available      Used %      
>>> Mounted on
>>>   /dev/hda10      15g      6.9g      6.9g               51%            /
>>>
>>>
>>> Using fdisk;
>>>                              Start         End               Blocks   
>>>              Id
>>>   /dev/hda10           4264         7451            25607578+         
>>> 83      linux
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It looks like you have a 15G filesystem on a 25G partition. Did you
>> increase the partition size at some point?
>>
>>  
>>
>>> What is wrong ? This machine after used for a week, a message telling 
>>> that the partition is full (15gb is used up), and I found that under 
>>> /mnt/ms/ folder there were still some contents supposed should have 
>>> been umounted, even I umount it again, the contents are still there! 
>>> I think it has something to do with misreported partition size as 
>>> above mentioned.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I think the two are unrelated. This probably happened because you copied
>> some files to /mnt/ms when the filesystem you usually have mounted there
>> was not mounted, so those files are actually in the root partition.
>>
>> Paul.
>>  
>>
> I did not increase partition size ever since I made this partition at 25 
> gb, and I stalled fc3 on it for 2 weeks and I found this happened.

Is this the ONLY partition, or do you have others such as one for /var?
If so, what is the exact message you're getting?
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