Question about F14 x64...

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Fri Oct 22 20:18:02 UTC 2010



On 10/22/2010 03:10 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:59 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> I've been building out a new laptop and trying to copy over the contents of my userspace from my old laptop to my new laptop.  I
>> keep running out of space on my new laptop even though my home directory is only 6.6Gb and the userspace (/home) on the new laptop
>> hase 156Gb of space.  So I cleared out everything from my /home directory on my new machine and now I see this:
>>
>> [root at ktmtoshiba /]# du -sh home
>> 24K    home
>>
>> [root at ktmtoshiba /]# df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_root
>>                        50G  7.2G   40G  16% /
>> tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sda5             485M   28M  432M   6% /boot
>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_home
>>                       164G  188M  155G   1% /home
>>
>>
>> How can du show that home is 24k (which is probably ok since there are no files in there, just my home directory and lost+found)
>> while df shows /home as having 188M used?
>>
>> Any pertinent thoughts welcome.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
> Block size vs. file size
>
No matter how you cut it 188Mb doesn't equal 24K.  Something seems funky here.

Kevin


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