[Fwd: RHEL connundrum with df and du]

[J. Epperson]

On Mon, November 6, 2006 10:22, Frank Warnke wrote:
> We had a similar experience when a device (removable SATA drive) was not
> mounted before the data was copied to the mount point which was then
> just a subdirectory under /.
>
> In our case we unmounted the data filesystems (including NFS and Samba
> mounts) and did a du in each mount point until we found the problem.
>
Hehehe.  First happened to me on hpux v7 around 1990.  Pulled my hair out
for days, finally booted single-user and found an entire COBOL development
suite in /usr installed by my predecessor....