Listing of a root directory: (shortened) saturn:/ # l drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16 Jun 22 2003 media/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1 Jun 22 2003 mnt/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 32 Jun 22 2003 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 137 root root 0 Dec 31 15:27 proc/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 529 Dec 11 2003 razor-agent.log drwx------ 11 root root 131072 Jan 7 09:37 root/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 28 2004 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16 Jun 22 2003 srv/ The output of "du -hsx /*" (also shortened) saturn:/ # du -hsx /* 0 /media 0 /mnt 313M /opt du: `/proc': No such file or directory 257M /razor-agent.log 1.8M /root 13M /sbin 5.0G /srv 35G /suse How can "ls" report 529 bytes for razor-agent.log when "du" says 257M ??? (or vice-versa). /Per Jessen, Zürich