Question about F14 x64...

Fennix cn.stefan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 20:26:44 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:12 AM, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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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How about hidden directories caching temporary data for any (and every)
application you have installed?  Firefox, Opera, Chromium, Open Office,
Evolution, and any of a myriad applications you might be using?

/fennix
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