At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:46 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ryan Pugatch wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> du won't look at deleted files, while df will.
df does not look at files (deleted or not) at all! It just looks at
allocated inodes.
>
> run
>
> lsof | grep deleted
>
> and see if any files are deleted are still open, space from them
> will not be freed until the process releases the file handle.
>
> nate
>
>
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