On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone <matt.iavarone at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is typical. There were probably files deleted from the file >> system that are still in use by a process. Restarting the process >> will release the files and df and du will jive. >> > > That argument only holds until you reach the point in the email where > he said this: > > I rebooted on the CentOS v4.8 CD #1, started "linux rescue" : > > After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue here. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I guess I glossed over that part. It could be related to mysql (the storage engine, metadata). du may not be able to parse that information(?).