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somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

df free space vs filelight freespace *solved*

output of df for /

bash-3.2$ df /
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              7566432   4967956   2214124  70% /

vs

Were is the extra 2.5 gigs coming from?
Which one is correct? I am assuming the filelight info is because just a few days ago df was reporting a lot less then it is now.

I have var and home on seperate partitions.
I use tempfs for /tmp.
edit: this is what KDirStat reports

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-04-14 18:50:33)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: df free space vs filelight freespace *solved*

What's the ouput of df -h / instead of df /? It could be the 1024 vs. 1000 thing.

jwbirdsong

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From: Western KS USA

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 173

Re: df free space vs filelight freespace *solved*

The difference COULD be because filelight, by default, does not scan /root/, /sys/, /dev/, /prov, ...whether those are enough to account for the difference or not I can't answer.

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PLEASE read and try to FIX/FILE BUGS instead of assuming other have/will.

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: df free space vs filelight freespace *solved*

yeah filelight did not scan root and the unaccountable space was from a VMWare virtual disk I didn't realise was saved there.