[lug] Disk usage discrepancy?

[Justin-lists]

The filesystem is ext3. Hmm, my apache logs were taking up a bunch of space until I remembered to add them to logrotate :P They are now compressed but the space didn't go down much, wonder if that has something to do with what you said about open logs...

Justin

> What filesystem is on /var?  There was an obscure bug in reiserfs a 
> while ago that could cause problems like this.
> 
> Another possibility is that you are running some kind of log 
> watching program and log files are kept open even after they have 
> been removed.  You might try rebooting and see if that discrepancy 
> is still there.
> 
> Michael
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