[clue-tech] Missing disk space?

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue May 24 17:06:02 MDT 2005


Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             4.1G   33M  3.9G   1% /home

> angelo at descartes:/home$ du -sh
> 116K    .

Perhaps df is reporting used blocks and du is reporting total bytes in 
files, or one or the other doesn't account well for space in the tail 
blocks of files.

What you're seeing is typical in a mostly free filesystem.

Dave



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