[SOLVED] Space that isn't there?

I have come across an odd problem which refuses to be solved, and am afraid to reboot because I am pretty sure it won't come back up.
There seems to be missing space on my hard drive. I found that both everything.log and kernel.log were taking over 7GBs of space, and deleted them. My filesystem STILL shows that it is full though. I used pcmanfm to total up the amount of space everything was taking (excluding the /home directory since it is a separate partition), and it said I had only 5GBs of data on it. The total size of my partition is 18GBs.
Anyone have any ideas on what is going on? here is my fstab, in case it helps:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
Last edited by smartboyathome (2009-10-19 20:22:40)

Acecero wrote:edit: Although I do notice that sda1 and sdb3 have the same amount partition space. Are they somehow in common?
I just realized my cats unplugged my external hard drive, so the disk was unplugged without being unmounted first. That is why it is reporting that way.
running du -sh /* reveals nothing, also. The largest folders, it tells me, are /usr and /var, with 2.4 and 1.5GBs, respectively. I had already taken care of the 7GB logs in /var, so that is why it is no longer a problem. Here is the full output (minus the permission denied stuff), remember that /home is on a different partition:
4.5M /bin
17M /boot
136K /dev
3.2M /etc
23G /home
80M /lib
16K /lost+found
20K /media
4.0K /mnt
407M /opt
0 /proc
4.0K /root
13M /sbin
12K /srv
0 /sys
1.5M /tmp
2.4G /usr
1.5G /var

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