Re: du vs df size difference

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:30:08PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> 
> 
> Luciano Rocha wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> That's interesting.. du is showing the same amount as df when I do this. 
>   I wonder why..

There's some data hidden by mount points. Check your mount points,
/home, etc., and there's probably old data there that may be removed.

-- 
lfr
0/0

Attachment: pgpHKMqzPNyue.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [CentOS Announce]     [CentOS Development]     [CentOS ARM Devel]     [CentOS Docs]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Carrier Grade Linux]     [Linux Media]     [Asterisk]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Xorg]     [Linux USB]
  Powered by Linux