Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Re: Can't figure out what's taking up space on /

Thank you Todd. And I'm sorry to Paul for not reading his post more
thoroughly regarding the mount points.

At some point my rsync script ran while /backup wasn't mounted or
something. The culprit was there.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:41 PM Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:32:54 -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:
>
> > I'm at a loss, I booted in single user mode, ran fsck on /dev/sd0a and it
> > shows clean. I still have a large discrepancy between df and du.
>
> Did you verify that nothing was hiding under the mount points? For
> example, when booted in single user mode with only the root partition
> mounted the /tmp, /home, /var, /usr and /backup directories should
> be empty.
>
> - todd
>

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