Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take
> > a look at the typescript below:
> >
> > bash-2.03$ df /home
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda7 2058900 1652232 300239 85% /home
> > bash-2.03$ du -s /home
> > 661643 /home
> >
> > According to df about 1.6Gb of the /home partition are used whereas du
> > -s says it about 1Gb less. Who's wrong? Or am I missing something?
>
> im too lazy to do the math but remember that ext2 filessytems reserve
> by default 5% of the filesystem for the superuser, you can see this
> descrepency in df on an empty filesystem where is says only 100K or
> such is used and yet available is 5% less then 1k-blocks.
Uhm, the figures concerned are 0.6, 1, 1.6 and 2 gigabytes. I see no
(sensible) way of getting 5% out of those even without doing any math.
Closest I come is 20% ;-)
Your 5% for the superuser is 0.1 gigabytes. It's not even close :-)
Any other suggestions?
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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