On Samstag, 16. August 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've a strange problem with my root partion: > > # du -hxs / > 188M / > > > and > > # du -hx --max-dep=1 / > 24M /root > 4.0K /cdrom > 19M /etc > 76K /.nvclock > 12K /media > 100K /chroot > 4.0K /home > 4.0K /usr > 1.9M /package > 5.5M /bin > 4.0K /windows2 > 125M /lib > 4.0K /service > 4.0K /opt > 4.0K /var > 4.0K /command > 12M /sbin > 4.0K /tmp > 0 /dev > 1.3M /lost+found > 0 /proc > 4.0K /boot > 4.0K /mnt > 4.0K /windows > 40K /.subversion > 0 /sys > 4.0K /boot2 > 188M / > > > but when I run df: > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 2.0G 640M 1.3G 35% / > ..... > > > > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is > showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". > > which one is the correct one? I've another server that this difference is > about 7 GiG and on that server root is 80% full. The type of partition is > ext3.
df is 'more correct'. > > Do others have this kind of inconsistancy on their systems? yes
