[SOLVED] Full HD problem (odd)

[smithware]

I booted my laptop the other day (running openSUSE 10.3), and my x login screen told me that my HD was full. I got rid of some sludge, but still have only 2.2g free. I feel I should have more. some details:

df -h:
/dev/sda2 20G 17G 2.2G 89% /
udev 1014M 120K 1013M 1% /dev
/dev/sda3 72G 39G 30G 56% /home

du -sh /*:
7.4M /bin
36M /boot
120K /dev
79M /etc
38G /home
186M /lib
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
207M /opt
0 /proc
109M /root
9.7M /sbin
88K /srv
0 /sys
124K /tmp
5.4G /usr
409M /var

Okay, so the 'df' shows that there is 17G used, but adding up the results of 'du' shows me at most 7g used on this partition. Any Ideas?

[raghaven.kumar]

If you are not using the other partitions
unmount them
and try du again !

AND tell us the result.

[i92guboj]

Use df -i

Maybe you just ran out of i-nodes.

[smithware]

Hey guys, not care if you care about this solution or no, but I backup my virtual machines nightly over the network (rsync)..... I had been sending them over a smb mount..... which wasn't mounted at the time of one of the backups! So, files copied into a directory I couldn't see because a network share was mounted there a bootup. Thus the discrepancy between the two results.....

Thanks raghaven!

[bigtomrodney]

Thanks for posting the update, good to share the knowledge

Glad you got sorted!