On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:12 AM, alan <a...@clueserver.org> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/22/2010 03:10 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:59 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > >>> I've been building out a new laptop and trying to copy over the > contents of my userspace from my old laptop to my new laptop. I > >>> keep running out of space on my new laptop even though my home > directory is only 6.6Gb and the userspace (/home) on the new laptop > >>> hase 156Gb of space. So I cleared out everything from my /home > directory on my new machine and now I see this: > >>> > >>> [r...@ktmtoshiba /]# du -sh home > >>> 24K home > >>> > >>> [r...@ktmtoshiba /]# df -h > >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_root > >>> 50G 7.2G 40G 16% / > >>> tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm > >>> /dev/sda5 485M 28M 432M 6% /boot > >>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_home > >>> 164G 188M 155G 1% /home > >>> > >>> > >>> How can du show that home is 24k (which is probably ok since there are > no files in there, just my home directory and lost+found) > >>> while df shows /home as having 188M used? > >>> > >>> Any pertinent thoughts welcome. > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> Kevin > >> Block size vs. file size > >> > > No matter how you cut it 188Mb doesn't equal 24K. Something seems funky > here. > > How much space is taken up by the filesystem journal? > > -- > Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
How about hidden directories caching temporary data for any (and every) application you have installed? Firefox, Opera, Chromium, Open Office, Evolution, and any of a myriad applications you might be using? /fennix
-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
