[Discuss] MyBookLive disk space issues

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 19:49:40 EST 2012


On Feb 17, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Doug wrote:
> 
> /dev/md1              1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /
[...]
> ramlog-tmpfs          1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /var/log

> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var
> 1.5G	var

This is going to give you misleading results because /var/log is not a real file system.  It is actually a RAM disk which is probably backed by swap.  Ah-hah!  There's a clue!  Run "swapon -s" to see what you are using for swap.

--Rich P.




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