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'df' command doesn't list /home directory

In the book I am reading, the output of df command is shown like this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 15115452 5012392 9949716 34% / /dev/sda5 59631908 ...
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User mounted secondary drive as /var

I have a drive that someone else mounted using mount /dev/sdc1 /var At some point they complained that all the data was missing Now: mount /dev/sdc1 /media/testdrive df -h shows 130GB used du -h ...
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Linux tool to track directory space over time

Are there any common Linux tools that track disk space over time, not just a filesystem overall, but for example, so I could easily see which directory trees swelled up and shrunk historically? The ...
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decreasing “reserved block count” does not show up in df output

By default my ext3 file system had 122060 blocks(5%) reserved. I decreased this to 24412(1%), but there were no changes in df output: root@t60:~# df -P Filesystem 1024-blocks Used ...
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How come lvextend allocates less than the specified amount of space?

I am trying to extend a volume, let's call it /dev/vol1. I see the initial volume size is 500MB when I call: df --block-size=M /dev/vol1 then to extend it 100MB more I call: lvextend -L+100M ...
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How to remember the difference between du and df?

du and df do rather similar things, and so I always find myself typing the wrong one. I think if I knew what "du" and "df" stands for it might make it easier to remember which to use. What is a way ...
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Which installed software packages use the most disk space on Debian?

Disk space on my root partition is running low, so I want to delete some applications from the system. How can I see which software packages use the most disk space? Is it possible to view that from ...
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ext4 used space (not -m option, not deleted files)

I'm a bit puzzled about the way ext4 reports used space. On a new Debian wheezy (testing) installation, I consistently got about 1GB extra space used with a 60GB SSD, when compared to du. I then ...
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Tell fs to free space from deleted files NOW

Is there a way to tell the kernel to give back the free disk space now? Like a write to something in /proc/ ? Using Ubuntu 11.10 with ext4. This is probably an old and very repeated theme. After ...