du -s /dev = megabytes? found after at least 10G free space disappeared

George Garvey tmwg-fedorat at inxservices.com
Thu Apr 22 15:37:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:07:34PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> 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?

04/22/04  8:36AM # ls -lS /dev|head
total 30376
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      69632 Apr  2 02:17 rd
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      36864 Apr  2 02:17 cciss
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      36864 Apr  2 02:17 i2o
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      36864 Apr  2 02:17 ida
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      16276 Feb 23 13:02 MAKEDEV
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root       4096 Apr  2 02:17 ataraid
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root       4096 Apr  2 02:17 compaq
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root       4096 Apr  2 02:17 cpu
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root       4096 Apr  2 02:17 dri





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