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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpfcso!ajs
  2. From: ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  4. Subject: Re: Weird disk usage problem.
  5. Message-ID: <7371256@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  6. Date: 25 Aug 92 19:40:27 GMT
  7. References: <Aug21.170315.19323@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  8. Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  11. > ...if i do a du from the root directory of the disk, it lists
  12. > directories and files I deleted.  If I switch to one of the directories
  13. > with the phantom files and do a du on that, the files are not listed.
  14.  
  15. Hmm...  just some guesses, is anything funny going on with symbolic
  16. links?  Are any processes holding the files open (but unlinked)?  (The
  17. latter should have still shown up through fsck.)
  18.