Linux seems to be miss-reporting free space

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davids355

I have a system running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I have 3 partitions:
1 is around 30GB (For OS) and the other two are both around 850GB and are mounted as backups1 and backups2.

I am having a problem with backups1 in that it is showing as full, but really I cant understand how it is full.

When I run df -h, I get this:

Code:
/dev/sda3 886G 813G 29G 97% /backups1
However, when I run this command to see the top ten largets files it doesn't show anything big enough to fill the drive:

Code:
du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10
It shows this for the top ten files:

713398700 /
410487416 /backups2
299708348 /backups1
251437244 /backups1/...
145498144 /backups1/.../...
100049880 /backups2/...
95036044 /backups2/...
83795840 /backups2/.../...
83795836 /backups2/.../.../...
78492904 /backups2/...

So you can see on backups1, the biggest folder is only 299708348 bytes which I beleive equates to roughly 300GB.

Any ideas?

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