Re: Disk usage

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> root@etch:/# du --max-depth=1 -h
> 1.7G    ./var
> 32K     ./tmp
> 4.0K    ./selinux
> 16K     ./lost+found
> 16M     ./boot
> 852K    ./home
> 0       ./sys
> 4.0K    ./initrd
> 22M     ./etc
> 81M     ./lib
> 515M    ./proc
> 6.3G    ./root
> 3.3M    ./sbin
> 3.7M    ./bin
> 8.0K    ./media
> 8.0K    ./mnt
> 208K    ./dev
> 4.0K    ./opt
> 1.3G    ./usr
> 4.0K    ./srv
> 9.7G    .
>
>
> root@etch:/# df -H
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3               18G    17G    68M 100% /
> tmpfs                  265M      0   265M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                    11M    54k    11M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                  265M      0   265M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2              192M    22M   160M  13% /boot
>
> Why is du telling me that I'm using 9.7G of the disk while df says I'm using
> over 17G?


-H reports back by powers of 1000 while -h reports back 1024, but that 
still doesnt account for the ammount of difference there.  Did you 
recently delete a lot of files?  It could be that a process still has a 
file open that needs to be closed before reporting that space free to df.

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