On Fri May 23 2008 07:19:10 Ron Johnson wrote: > Lastly, remember that df sees blocks, but du sees *files*. So, > where du sees 3 files that are each 1KiB, fir a total of 3KiB, df > sees them as each using 1 4KiB block, for a total of 12KiB. I'm pretty sure that du figures out the number of blocks used from the file size (although maybe not the indirect blocks): $ mkdir foo $ du foo 4 foo $ echo small >foo/bar $ du foo 8 foo $ --Mike Bird