[CentOS] du vs df size difference

Ryan Pugatch rpug at tripadvisor.com
Wed Sep 30 22:33:56 UTC 2009



Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> ls -l /proc/[0-9]*/fd/| grep delete
> 
> will show those up. Then its a matter if you want to keep that file
> around or not.
> 
> also du / did not look for files in / that were starting with a .
> 
> ls -la / and see if there are hidden directories or files taking up space.
> 
> Finally sparse files can give odd readings at time.. but that is the
> least likely reason.
> 


Nothing for deleted files and no large . files found.

Thanks,

Ryan



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