Riddle me on this one

[Ted]

be aware that if you delete a log file, i.e. say apache access or error 
log, the space is not reclaimed until the process is restarted
(at least that has been my experience). So perhaps you deleted files, 
and the space hasn't been reclaimed?
Also look at . files that may not be showing in your list.
maybe lsof would help.

-tl

On 01/21/2012 12:18 PM, William Muriithi wrote:
> Morning
>
> I have a system that is maxing up the disk space and was trying to
> find a logs to purge.  The odd thing is, the root of the log directory
> reports 3.6G, but all the logs file living on that directory do not
> even come close to the sum of all the logs file size added up.
>
> du -h /var/log
> 4.0K	/var/log/unattended-upgrades
> 4.0K	/var/log/apparmor
> 4.0K	/var/log/landscape
> 4.0K	/var/log/dist-upgrade
> 56K	/var/log/apt
> 40K	/var/log/ConsoleKit
> 824K	/var/log/exim4
> 4.0K	/var/log/news
> 4.0K	/var/log/jetty
> 12K	/var/log/fsck
> 3.6G	/var/log
>
> Why would that happen?  How would I fix it?  Someone seem this before?
>   Really odd, or I am missing something fundamental
>
> Thanks in advance and great weekend
>
> William
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