Robert Grasso wrote, On 02/01/2010 10:29 AM: > Hello, <SNIP> > CentOS 4.8. I noticed a difference between df and du which is hard to believe : > > according to df, I am using 29 GB > [root at cedrat-rt ~]$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 33G 29G 2.8G 92% / > none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm > > (there are no other partitions - ok, I could have partitioned it a bit more) > but according to > > du -kshxc /* > my largest directory is /var (because of mysql) and the grand total is > 19 GB > > I have a 10 GB difference between both outputs. <SNIP> > e2fsck reports a clean filesystem <SNIP> > Does anybody have a suggestion ? <commentary on options> -k is 1k block size -h is print human readable (with appropriate extensions) which ever of them is last wins for display... I suggest only using one though, to reduce possible confusion. for large measurements I usually use -m, of course it could be fun to use --block-size=1024M instead, i.e., 1G. </commentary on options> I too would expect them to come close to matching, unless you have a lot of 3.5k (or less) files in a 4k inode file system. du -shxc --count-links /* du -shxc --apparent-size /* du -shxc --count-links --apparent-size /* -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter