Hi,
please be aware of /proc and its functionality.
Your RAM is represented in /proc and I think it's counted within when you
apply "du" on it.
You really should atleast exclude /proc from doing "du". :)

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/126718

Bye.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 13:13, Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see df -h and du -hs difference.
>
> r...@test:/# du -hs * | grep G
> 2.4G    home
> du: cannot access `proc/1027/task/1027/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `proc/1027/task/1027/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `proc/1027/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `proc/1027/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
> 9.5G    usr
> r...@test:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              70G   55G   15G  79% /
> varrun                3.6G   88K  3.6G   1% /var/run
> udev                  3.6G   32K  3.6G   1% /dev
> /dev/sda5             464M   28M  412M   7% /boot
> r...@test:~#
>
> Please suggest whats eating up 43.1 GB disk space
>
> Thanks
>
> Kaushal
>
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