nodetool ring Load column

[Ramesh Natarajan]

What does the Load column in nodetool ring mean?  From the output
below it shows 101.62 GB. However if I do a disk usage it is about 6
GB.

thanks
Ramesh


[root@CAP2-CNode1 cassandra]#
~root/apache-cassandra-1.0.0-rc2/bin/nodetool -h localhost ring
Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
Owns    Token

        148873535527910577765226390751398592512
10.19.102.11    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  101.62 GB
12.50%  0
10.19.102.12    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.42 GB
12.50%  21267647932558653966460912964485513216
10.19.102.13    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  95.47 GB
12.50%  42535295865117307932921825928971026432
10.19.102.14    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  91.25 GB
12.50%  63802943797675961899382738893456539648
10.19.103.11    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  93.98 GB
12.50%  85070591730234615865843651857942052864
10.19.103.12    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  100.33 GB
12.50%  106338239662793269832304564822427566080
10.19.103.13    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  74.1 GB
12.50%  127605887595351923798765477786913079296
10.19.103.14    datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  93.96 GB
12.50%  148873535527910577765226390751398592512



[root@CAP2-CNode1 cassandra]# du -hs /var/lib/cassandra/data/
6.0G    /var/lib/cassandra/data/