site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) - Mike Hogsett _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Matt Deatherage wrote: If there are other explanations, I can't think of them. Another potential, although unlikely, possibility is that a running process has an open file handle to a file that has been deleted from the filesystem. If MacOSX behaves like other unix OSs the file will continue to occupy space on the disk until the filehandle is closed, but since there is no entry in the file system for this file 'du' will not include the deleted-but-open file's size in its calculation since it can't stat the file. For 58GBytes of missing space this is highly unlikely. Also this is not possible across reboots (since obviously all filehandles are closed on shutdown). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com