On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:03 +0000, Glynn Clements wrote: > Pol wrote: > > > > Apart from anything else, "du" won't report the space used by files > > > which have been deleted (unlinked) but still exist because a process > > > is using them. > > > > Sorry, i meant 'df'. > > Is it possible 'df' does not report the current amount of space used by > > partitions? General "df" output will describe the following fields.. Filesystem |1K-blocks | Used | Available | Use% | Mounted on As Glynn explained, there are issues in "df" with networked filesystems like NFS. There it will print blanks for attributes that the server doesn't support. ~Chamith > > No. Any allocation or deallocation of blocks will be immediately > reflected in the output from "df" (for local filesystems, at least; > there may be issues with networked filesystems). > -- *** Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
