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Vintendo

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Registered: 2008-04-21

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df -h differs from du -h

how come, that when i do df -h i get

Bestandssysteem       Grtte Gebr Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op
/dev/sdb6              14G  7,0G  7,1G  50% /
none                  1,7G     0  1,7G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb5             183M  9,9M  164M   6% /boot
/dev/mapper/data-home
                      2,2T  1,1T  1,1T  50% /home

And du -h i get

2,2G    /

So, why says df i have used 7.0 G and du 2.2G?

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smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

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Re: df -h differs from du -h

I don't understand what du you're using but "du -h" gives me alot more than just the size of /, even when executed in /.  What command line options are you _really_ using?

fukawi2

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: df -h differs from du -h

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ce-555519/
Look at the first and last post for the main points:)

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-07-26 05:08:01)

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