Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

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On 03/11/2018 07:19 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 12/3/18 10:48 am, Philip Rhoades wrote:
JD, Gordon, Robert,


On 2018-03-12 06:13, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 03/11/2018 01:48 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,

I started deleting GBs of stuff from:

/dev/sdb1 /backup

but df did not reduce from 95% so I looked more closely and found this weirdness:

# du -s -BG 20180216
43G     20180216

# du -s -BG 20180216/*
1G      20180216/naf_dirs
43G     20180216/phil
1G      20180216/root

# du -s -BG 20180216/phil/*
1G      20180216/phil/0
1G      20180216/phil/0_finance
1G      20180216/phil/0_naf
1G      20180216/phil/Maildir
1G      20180216/phil/txts
1G      20180216/phil/vimwiki

Where has ~37GB disappeared to?  There are no files held open and I have successfully umounted and re-mounted the partition - what is going on?
That "du -s -BG 20180216/phil/*" is ignoring any "dot"
files/directories under 20180216/phil .

It's better to leave out the "-s" option and use the "--max-depth"
option to limit the depth of the display.
    du -BG --max-depth=1 20180216/phil

Damn, I should have thought of that - normally, outside of .config, there would not be much in my dot dirs - but I had been experimenting with cryptocurrency nodes . .

Thanks for the useful tips!

Regards,

P.
Just one question on this, is the scaling that the -BG screwing around with the results of du as shown below?

bash-4.4$ du -s -BG /home/steve
8G      /home/steve

bash-4.4$ du -s -BG /home/steve/*
1G      /home/steve/andrew
1G      /home/steve/config
1G      /home/steve/Desktop
1G      /home/steve/Documents
1G      /home/steve/Downloads
1G      /home/steve/gtk.css
1G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-browser.log
1G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-chromium.log
1G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log
1G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.1
0G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.1.lck
0G      /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.lck
1G      /home/steve/l10n
1G      /home/steve/Music
1G      /home/steve/NetBeansProjects
1G      /home/steve/Pictures
1G      /home/steve/Public
1G      /home/steve/R
3G      /home/steve/rpmbuild
1G      /home/steve/Templates
1G      /home/steve/Videos
1G      /home/steve/workspace

du -s -BG /home/steve/workspace/*
1G      /home/steve/workspace/basics.zip_expanded
1G      /home/steve/workspace/jsf-blank.zip_expanded
1G      /home/steve/workspace/jsffacletstutorial
1G      /home/steve/workspace/libraries
1G      /home/steve/workspace/RemoteSystemsTempFiles
1G      /home/steve/workspace/Servers
1G      /home/steve/workspace/test-app
1G      /home/steve/workspace/whirlwind
Of course it is. Any size greater than 0 and not exceeding 1GB will show as 1G. It's answering the question, "How many blocks 1GB in size would it take to hold this?" Anything of non-zero size will take at least 1 such block.

So, your "workspace" directory contains 8 things, none of which is larger than 1G, and the total space for all of them is also less than 1G.

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Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
                Do NOT delete it.
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