Disk usage error

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jan 20 18:49:00 UTC 2010


On 10-01-20 12:51:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
 ...
> ... Also keep in mind that du and df look at "sparse"
> files differently. df shows what's been allocated and du shows what's
> actually used.

Are you sure that those two things are different?  See du's --apparant-
size option (not the default), and note that df reports the free blocks 
on the disk (parse files don't have blocks allocated for their empty 
parts).

The OP has some other problem.

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