On Thursday 30 July 2009 08:37:44 am Chuck Payne wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM, jdd (kim2)<jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Chuck Payne a écrit :
Guys,
I have a question. Have you ever seen disc space just disappear and you were unable to find what is using?
look at mount points. May be you had a failure in mouting and so some files are hidden under the mount point
also kde gives room for trash and thumbnails on "." files
jdd
Chuck, Be sure to double-check what jdd said. If in the past there was a failed mount on one of your mount points and then you did a backup or something that wrote files to the unmounted mount point you may very well have filled up the partition that contains the mount point --and-- now after a successful mount on that mount point you can't tell that there may be another bizillion files there -- and -- since something is now mounted on the mount point, all you are getting is the information about what the current mount holds, not what may exist in the unmounted state on the mount point itself. (clear as mud yet?) I had about 8 Gigs of stuff do that once when I had a failed cifs mount of /mnt/office. I then backed up all of the files from another machine to /mnt/office (recursively). The conflict preventing the mount was fixed in another unrelated credential file fix, and when the next backup ran with /mnt/office properly mounted I ended up with *double* the space being used. It isn't immediately apparent that a problem has occurred because when you look at the files on the mount point, you see what you think should be there. The problem is that you may have *DOUBLE* the information you think you have. (a full set of files on the unmounted mount point *and* another duplicate set of information on the share or partitions that gets mounted on mount point) The original files are now suppressed under what actually mounted there. The only real way to check is to umount each of the shares or partitions and then check for any files present on each of the mount points in the unmounted state. Confirm what is or isn't mounted with mtab when you are testing. A simple ls or ducks will do for discovering any suppressed files once everything is unmounted. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org