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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, <platoali@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is |
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> showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". |
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> which one is the correct one? I've another server that this difference is |
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> about 7 GiG and on that server root is 80% full. The type of partition is |
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> ext3. |
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Next to the difference due journaling etc, there is one important |
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difference between du en df: |
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deleted files held open by a running process. du doesn't count these |
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files, df does. |
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You can find those files with lsof | grep "deleted". Try closing the |
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process with deleted files and suddenly your du en df will give the |
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same free diskspace. |
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Ofcourse, a reboot does also the trick. |
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Ward |
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