Directory Size problem

[Dan Track]

On 12/1/06, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:09:25PM +0000, Dan Track wrote:
> > I had no other idea why I would have this problem If I run du or df -h
> > I get to see where the disk usage being taken up, and du shows that
> > its /var/spool/mqueue. But if I run ls -lhd /var/spool/mqueue it
> > reports the directory to be only 300k. Can you suggest any other
> > possibility?
>
> Can you show us the exact output of all the following commands:
>
>     df
>     ls -laRib /var/spool/mqueue
>     du /var/spool/mqueue

Hi

Sorry for the delay in my response. Been ill :(

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

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Dan