On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:59:25PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Hi all, > > Curious issue.. looking in to how much disk space is being used on a > machine (CentOS 5.3). When I compare the output of du vs df, I am > seeing a 12GB difference with du saying 8G used and df saying 20G used. > > # du -hcx / > 8.0G total > > # df -h / > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/xvda3 22G 20G 637M 97% / > > I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the > same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have > any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference? > I have read a few articles online about it and none have really shown > such a large difference. Do this: mount /dev/xvda3 /mnt du -hc /mnt And see if you can find the other 12GB. I usually do: du -mc --max-depth 2 /mnt | sort -n Though I've recently learned: du -hc --max-depth 2 /mnt | sort --human-readable or some such, but that requires a very recent coreutils installation. -- lfr 0/0
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