On Monday 01 February 2010, Brian Mathis 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" : Indeed. At this point I'd start looking at things hiding under mount points. But as the OP seems to have only one filesystem, /, then this will be limited to mount-points for special filesystems (like sys, proc and /dev/shm). What I'm getting at is that you could have, for example, a 10G file /proc/foo on the actaul /-filesystem. As soon as proc is mounted on /proc this would be invisible. /Peter > After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue here. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100201/414db4ef/attachment-0005.sig>