On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:13:03 +0100
Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just done a fresh install of Sarge 3.1r1 on an 8Gb partition on
> an i386 machine here, basic packages only (no "tasks"), and on
> checking space usage before proceeding I'm somewhat bemused by the
> fact that du and df radically disagree on how much space has been used
> so far.
do you have any nfs or smb mounts that du might be counting? any other mounted partitions that might show up in du that you're not thinking of? did you mount some other partition as /home for example?
just a hunch.
A
>
> In *single-user* mode :
>
> # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 8354340 343808 7491140 5% /
>
> # du -sk /
> 835383
>
> df says ~340Mb used
> du says ~830Mb used
> that's quite a difference ....
>
> Googling just comes up with these threads :
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/12/msg01729.html
> df and du disagree
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/03/msg00670.html
> [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?
>
> And the only suggestion in either one that makes any sense is that the
> difference is explained by the space in the filesystem reserved for
> root-only use. This is shown as 104823 4096-byte blocks :
>
> # tune2fs -l /dev/hda8
> ...
> Block count: 2096474
> Reserved block count: 104823
> ...
> Block size: 4096
> ...
>
> Reserved space = 104823 * 4Kb = 419292 Kb
>
> But 419292 + 343808 (from df) = 763100 != 835383 (from du)
>
> It's roughly right, but ~70000 Kb is still missing.
>
> Does anyone think the reserved space is indeed the explanation ?
> I'd just like to know, before I go too much further with this
> installation, that there isn't something horribly wrong ....
>
> Perhaps there _is_ a bug after all, that I should report.
>
> TIA
> Nick Boyce
> Bristol, UK
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