[CentOS] du vs df size difference

Marcelo Roccasalva marcelo-centos at irrigacion.gov.ar
Wed Sep 30 22:10:15 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 17:59, Ryan Pugatch <rpug at tripadvisor.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Curious issue.. looking in to how much disk space is being used on a
> machine (CentOS 5.3).  When I compare the output of du vs df, I am
> seeing a 12GB difference with du saying 8G used and df saying 20G used.

Maybe you have a mount point overlaping big files... du -x will not find them...

-- 
Marcelo

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