Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: 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". Normal...

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:20:49 +0430, [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". There is another possibility that no one seems t have mentioned. You may have files hidden inside a m

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 August 2008 01:18:21 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > Actually, there is one more way to hide a file from du > > If there is a file in the /var directory *BEFORE* the /var partition is > mounted onto the directory, then du won't find it, but df will know > about the space it is using. > > You

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: > 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 ser

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-16 Thread Ward Poelmans
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

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.08.08 07:51]: > Hi, > > I've a strange problem with my root partion: > > 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 anot

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've a strange problem with my root partion: > > # du -hxs / > 188M/ > > > and > > # du -hx --max-dep=1 / > 24M /root > 4.0K/cdrom > 19M /etc > 76K /.nvclock > 12K /media > 100K/chroot > 4.0K/home > 4.

[gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-15 Thread platoali
Hi, I've a strange problem with my root partion: # du -hxs / 188M/ and # du -hx --max-dep=1 / 24M /root 4.0K/cdrom 19M /etc 76K /.nvclock 12K /media 100K/chroot 4.0K/home 4.0K/usr 1.9M/package 5.5M/bin 4.0K/windows2 125M/lib 4.0K/serv