du -s /dev = megabytes? found after at least 10G free space disappeared
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Tue Apr 20 10:07:34 UTC 2004
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:53, George Garvey <tmwg-fedorat at inxservices.com> wrote:
> Suddenly ran out of disk space on a server that had at least 10G free
> space. On that system, du -s /dev reports 75616. This doesn't account for
> the lack of free space, but it also doesn't make sense. I wonder what else
> is going on.
What does "ls -lS /dev |head" report?
Typos as root are a good way to waste disk space. /dev/nul is the most
common, and a typo for the name of a tape device is also reasonably common.
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