Hi Andreas, > > We have a strange problem with ext3. df reports 28 of 30 GB to be > > used(rest may be slack) which it calls 100% used. But with du we can > > only find 13 GB, most of it actually in pretty large files (archives). > > Where are the other 17 GB gone? > > Either in hidden directories, or files held open but unlinked. To find > the former, you could try: > > find <root> -type d -name ".*" ! -name "." du -scm /var would have found that too, right? I double checked anyway with find, this is not the cause. > To find the latter, use "lsof | grep deleted" none, either :-( Thanks anyway Michael -- Hostsharing eG / Boytinstr. 10 / D-22143 Hamburg phone+fax:+49/700/HOSTSHAR(ing) (= +49/700/46787427) http://www.hostsharing.net: host, where YOU make the difference