> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:12:54AM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> centos2 at foxengines.net wrote: >> >> > It's not working, I haven't been able to identify the files. They >> aren't >> > there. All attempts to measure disk usage of / by files shows that the >> > disk usage is only a percentage of available space and that there >> > should be space available. >> >> Sparse files? How are you determining how much free space you have? > > Thanks for your response. > > I didn't attempt to find sparse files specifically but there were no files > (or > dot-files) at the top level of / that contained any significant data. > > There sum of the sizes of all of the directories at the top level of / > reported > by du did not match the amount of disk space used at the time of the > problem. > I don't have a transcript of that session but I was using commands like: > > find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type d | while read; do du -shx $d; done What does lsof | grep DEL show? Regards, Simon