Directory Size problem

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Mon Dec 4 16:43:41 UTC 2006


Dan Track wrote:
> 
> well here's the output:
> 
> [root at diamond root]#    df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              1035660    476164    506888  49% /
> /dev/sdb1             17140848  11505004   4765124  71% /opt
> none                    513960         0    513960   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2              3099292    979196   1962660  34% /usr
> 
> [root at diamond root]#    ls -laRib /var/spool/mqueue
> /var/spool/mqueue:
> total 3724384
>  15374 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     mail       311296 Dec  4 12:46 .
>  43877 drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Jul 13 13:33 ..
> [root at diamond root]#    du /var/spool/mqueue
> 3724380 /var/spool/mqueue


That's really odd...  3.7GB seems to be more space than is on that 
filesystem.  I'd probably fsck the filesystem, though I can't really 
imagine how that'd fix things.




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