Thomas Preissler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-21 14:24:43 +0200]: > I have encountered a strange problem with df 4.0.
Yes, a strange problem. I can't recreate it here. > df shows me that a partition is nearly full. But when I use other > programs like du or calculate it by hand, other values are shown. > host:~ # df -h > /dev/hda5 3.8G 3.4G 162M 96% /var > host:~ # du /var -sh > 1.8G /var Almost a 2x factor of difference. I have to ask, might part of your data under /var be mounted on a different filesystem? > Counting filesize by hand shows me: > > host:~ # for s in $(find /var -printf "%s\n") ; do sum=$(echo "$sum+$s" | bc); >done; echo $sum > 1904892706 Huh? Did you miss something when posting that command? It seems only half constructed. I tried a similar experiment on my system. Here is my result. du -sb /var 329510912 /var sum=0; for f in $(find /var -print0 | xargs -r0 ls -ld | awk '{print$5}');do sum=$(expr $sum + $f); done ; echo $sum 328859152 find /var -printf "\n" | wc -l 6460 Since du really reports in block size as reported by the filesystem some difference would be expected. This is typically a 512 byte chunk on classic filesystems but will be different on newer filesystems. Also, optimizations of storing data in the inode itself, etc. The above result was on ext2. Your result seems really unaccountable. I can't explain it. If it would be possible for you to help by debugging in the code it would be much appreciated. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils