Jack Knight wrote:
> Jim Kissel wrote:
>
>>
>> Just done a clean minimum install of Debian Etch under VMWare
>> Workstation 5.5 and I find df reporting:
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda1 1359816 287656 1992884 23% /
>> udev 10248 56 10184 1% /dev
>> devshm 128588 0 128588 0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/hda6 2601116 69516 2399469 3% /home
>>
>> du -s /home reports
>> 40 /home
>>
>>
>> du's 40 used blocks != 69516 Used in df
>> I know there is a simple explanation, but what is it?
>
> You need to run du -s /home/* to ensure everything gets counted
> recursively under that directory, otherwise only top level files will be
> accounted for.
I could understand /home/. but /home/* is a tad risky.
Esp. If some idiot(me) has symlink another fs under /home/pics :-)
> NB: Any files unlinked but held open by running processes will be
> counted by *df* but not by *du*.
Because they are no longer in the filesystem tree but are allocated
(not in free list) for that partition.
Jacqui
