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Quoting Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au>: |
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> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: |
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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. |
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>> > and "df" is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". |
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Normal... |
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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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Hm. Yeah... Maybe. Journaling add -in my experience- about 32MB. |
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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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Yeap. |
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> If there is a file in the /var directory *BEFORE* the /var partition is |
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> mounted onto the directory, then du won't find it, but df will know |
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> about the space it is using. |
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Yes |
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But you're all missing rounding errors. If you do: |
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du -hcs /path/to/some/dir |
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You'll end up with a different result if you instead do: |
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du -bcs /path/to/some/dir |
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Real example: |
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zoolook@melnitz ~ $ du -bcs Desktop/ |
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1289720534 Desktop/ |
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1289720534 total |
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zoolook@melnitz ~ $ du -hcs Desktop/ |
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1.3G Desktop/ |
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1.3G total |
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If you do the math, 1.3G is more or less 1395864372 bytes; ~110MB in |
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diference and same tool. |
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Regards, |
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Norberto |
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