Don't understand df/du output

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:58:12 +0200, Alain AUDEBERT aka 2A wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I having a problem to understand the output of du and df command :
> 
> [root at ftp ~]# df -h /opt/
> Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/xbd6     387G    342G     13G    96%    /opt
> 
> [root at ftp ~]# du -sh /opt/
> 342G    /opt/
> 
> But 387Go - 342Go not equal to 13Go ! Where's the available space ?
> (same thing with df -k)
> 
> I have try a tunefs -m 1 /dev/xbd6, unmount, mount and nothing change
> Is it the 8% reserved by FFS ?

See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF



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