[CentOS] du vs df size difference
nate
centos at linuxpowered.net
Wed Sep 30 21:10:46 UTC 2009
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the
> same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have
> any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference?
> I have read a few articles online about it and none have really shown
> such a large difference.
du won't look at deleted files, while df will.
run
lsof | grep deleted
and see if any files are deleted are still open, space from them
will not be freed until the process releases the file handle.
nate
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