Question about F14 x64...

[alan]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Kevin Martin wrote:

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> 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.

How much space is taken up by the filesystem journal?

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