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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Disk quota exceeded (difference btw. du and df, again!) Post 302675161 by mregine on Sunday 22nd of July 2012 02:50:21 AM

07-22-2012

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Thanks jlliagre & otheus. I think that's the conclusion Dave came to, too. What confused me was the output from df -kh ., with the /home/myuser next to the 100%, and not, say, /home or /home/some-subgroup. I had never seen users mentioned there and I interpreted it wrong. I thought du and df would then both measure the same thing. Actually, now I think there may be a process running amok somewhere (which doesn't belong to me), because I did manage to clean up a few M of files and the space was taken up immediately.

otheus, I considered that but since many posts on the du/df difference suggested admins might have to reboot the machine to fix the problem, I figured /tmp wasn't the best place. Luckily there is another scratch directory somewhere in which I can work :-) Of course I could also take Sunday off, but I like working when it's nice and quiet (and then taking off during the week when there's too much going on).

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ns_mktemp

ns_tmp(3aolserver)					    AOLserver Built-In Commands 					ns_tmp(3aolserver)

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NAME

       ns_mktemp, ns_tmpnam - commands

SYNOPSIS

       ns_mktemp template

       ns_tmpnam
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DESCRIPTION

       ns_mktemp  returns  a unique filename based on the template you specify.  ns_tmpnam returns a filename that can safely be used for a tempo-
       rary file.

       The template for ns_mktemp should contain a string with six trailing Xs, which will be replaced with an alpha-numeric string of six charac-
       ters chosen to make the filename unique.  If template does not end with six trailing Xs the empty string will be returned.

       ns_tmpnam  calls  the  tmpnam()	C  library function, and the results will depend on your operating system.  On Irix, for example, tmpnam()
       always generate a file name using the path-prefix defined as P_tmpdir in the header file which is "/var/tmp/".

EXAMPLES

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SEE ALSO

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