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Package: du and df
Version: Latest
If I execute df -h I see this line:
/dev/sda2 14G 14G 90M 100% /home
/home has 14 GB of space used. If I cd /home and then execute du -h
--max-depth=1 I see this:
20K ./.mc
8.0K ./.qt
114M ./Backup
628K ./.kde
4.0K ./.ssh
24K ./.vnc
8.0K ./Dias
591K ./.mcop
3.1M ./Dumps
339K ./.sqldeveloper
18M ./.mozilla
12K ./scripts
24K ./Desktop
6.7M ./Reports
420M ./Projects
164K ./.local
28K ./.subversion
8.0K ./.fullcircle
563M .
df says my /home is taking 14 GB but du saya it only uses 535 MB. I
beleive there to be a huge bug in one of the applications.
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--- Begin Message ---
The classic reason for df and du disagreeing is that a file is open but
has been deleted. (Filespace is not reclaimed until any application that
has the file open has closed the file.) If the discrepency remains even
after a reboot, then it's possible that the disk is in an inconsistent
state. Running fsck on the disk is recommended in that case.
In either case, there's nothing that can be done in coreutils, since
these programs are only reporting information provided by the kernel &
filesystem.
Mike Stone
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