du and df don't agree

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Tue Nov 11 00:03:28 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:21:11PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein typed:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> 
> > Why would du show 630k used by /tmp while df show 161M used
> > by /tmp?
> > 
> > I have run fstat /tmp and can't find any files that are using
> > the space that df is claiming as being used.
> 
> You need lsof +aL1 /tmp to see an answer.

Please don't advise people to install third party apps (lsof) where
base system tools (fstat) can do the job.

Ruben



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