[PLUG] Debian df command reports wrong usage on root partition

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

I'm having a weird problem on a Debian 3.1 system.   After moving Gb of
data from the root partition to /var ( and replacing those directories 
with symlinks )
my root partition is still full.

Is there some known problem with df ?   Are the LVM mounted
volumes causing it problems ?

I've also looked at / with a graphical disk analysis tool,  and all the disk
space is taken up by /home and /var -  so why is 14Gb still showing up
as used under / ?

df
Filesystem                      1k-blocks          Used    Available  
Use%   Mounted on
/dev/sda2/                            87857        19645      73171    
22%   /boot
/dev/sda3/                      17299036  14649436  1770848    90%   /
/dev/mapper/sys-home   30963708  20959920   8430924   72%   /home
/dev/mapper/sys-var      20970876    8716796  12254080   42%  /var


If I add the size of all partitions ( excluding /boot,  /home and /var )
I get  1.5Gb,  however the df command above shows 14Gb in use.

Here are the sized reported by du for all directories except in /boot, 
/home, /var

/tmp           24
/bin        3112
/dev         852
/lib     128472
/root      4500
/etc    404432
/usr  1021440
Total  1.54  Gb

Also,  the disks are on a Adaptec 2400  IDE RAID controller,  HW RAID 1
that appear as SCSI drives  sda2, sda3 JBOD, and the rest as LVM

Thanks,

Lee Marzke
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