On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is > showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". > > which one is the correct one? I've another server that this difference is > about 7 GiG and on that server root is 80% full. The type of partition is > ext3.
Next to the difference due journaling etc, there is one important difference between du en df: deleted files held open by a running process. du doesn't count these files, df does. You can find those files with lsof | grep "deleted". Try closing the process with deleted files and suddenly your du en df will give the same free diskspace. Ofcourse, a reboot does also the trick. Ward
