du and df don't agree
Erwan David
erwan at rail.eu.org
Mon Nov 10 08:22:06 PST 2008
Le Mon 10/11/2008, Stephen Clark disait
> Why would du show 630k used by /tmp while df show 161M used
> by /tmp?
>
>
> # du -sh /tmp
> 630K /tmp
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 94M 41M 45M 47% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/ad0s1e 193M 161M 17M 91% /tmp
> ... remaining fs info removed
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE
>
> I have run fstat /tmp and can't find any files that are using
> the space that df is claiming as being used.
Because this space is used by removed, but open files.
Try lsof +L1 to see them.
--
Erwan
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