Re: Linux 2.0.30 loosing HD space?

Sam Mortimer (sam@gate-isdn.mps.co.uk)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:41:43 +0100 (BST)


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970610145437.391A-100000@dark.x.dtu.dk>,
Baldur Norddahl <bbn@dark.x.dtu.dk> wrote:
>
>Ok, as people suggested that this could be old processes with open files,
>I decided to ruin my uptime and reboot the system. It made no difference
>at all.

there shouldn't have been any need to reboot - drop into single user mode,
remount /dev/hda2 readonly and then run fsck?

-Sam.