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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:41:34
Message-Id: 200808160841.26319.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] df and du difference by platoali@gmail.com
1 On Samstag, 16. August 2008, platoali@×××××.com wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I've a strange problem with my root partion:
5 >
6 > # du -hxs /
7 > 188M /
8 >
9 >
10 > and
11 >
12 > # du -hx --max-dep=1 /
13 > 24M /root
14 > 4.0K /cdrom
15 > 19M /etc
16 > 76K /.nvclock
17 > 12K /media
18 > 100K /chroot
19 > 4.0K /home
20 > 4.0K /usr
21 > 1.9M /package
22 > 5.5M /bin
23 > 4.0K /windows2
24 > 125M /lib
25 > 4.0K /service
26 > 4.0K /opt
27 > 4.0K /var
28 > 4.0K /command
29 > 12M /sbin
30 > 4.0K /tmp
31 > 0 /dev
32 > 1.3M /lost+found
33 > 0 /proc
34 > 4.0K /boot
35 > 4.0K /mnt
36 > 4.0K /windows
37 > 40K /.subversion
38 > 0 /sys
39 > 4.0K /boot2
40 > 188M /
41 >
42 >
43 > but when I run df:
44 > df -h
45 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
46 > /dev/sda3 2.0G 640M 1.3G 35% /
47 > .....
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is
52 > showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du".
53 >
54 > which one is the correct one? I've another server that this difference is
55 > about 7 GiG and on that server root is 80% full. The type of partition is
56 > ext3.
57
58 df is 'more correct'.
59
60 >
61 > Do others have this kind of inconsistancy on their systems?
62
63 yes