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Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?
When I sum up the sizes of my files, I get one figure. If I run du, I get another figure. If I run du on all the files on my partition, it doesn't match what df claims is used. Why are there so many ...
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df vs. du: why so much difference? [duplicate]
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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
df says 8.9G used by the partition mounted in /
:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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df says I have 20G more disk space used than du. Why? [duplicate]
I used du to list all folders and sort by size, the results simply doesn't add up to how much disk space is used(using df). There's about 20G in discrepency, why?
[root@xxx lib]# du --max-depth=1 -h /...
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`du -sh` reports different used size than `df -h` [duplicate]
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linux free disk space confusion
Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
df -h says that I have 494G used on /var:
Filesystem Size Used ...
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What's the difference between du and df? [duplicate]
I would like to know exactly what du and df mean.
The following is an example of the output of the df command.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
ubi0:rootfs 435M 424M 12M 98% /...
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Unix - df output is /var 98% but just 374mb used in du output [duplicate]
Here is my df -g output:
df -g /var
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd9var 3.50 0.10 98% 6376 18% /var
But if a enter in the mount point ...
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du space more than the disk size [duplicate]
I have a disk size of 1TB.
But when I do du -hx . on one of the folders it shows 1.4TB.
and df -k . shows 60% full.
I dont understand why is the size shown greater that disk size itself.
Thanks,
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du shows more used space than available space showed by df [duplicate]
I have a remote linux server on which I'm seeing the following weird behaviour:
When I use du -ch /somedrive to get the total occupied space, I get 16TB.
But when I use df -h /somedrive to get the ...
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Mysterious problem: Deleting massive amount of files doesn't free up disk space [duplicate]
I have a disk that is 100% used, 400 GB of 400 GB, however I have moved more than 44 GB of files from it, but no extra space got available, the usage is still 400GB of 400GB.
Filesystem ...
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Space usage not correct [duplicate]
When I run
df -H
I can see that the root / is using 100% of the space:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 423G 423G 0 100% /
udev 2.0G 8.2k 2.0G 1% ...
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Can't find the reason why root directory usage is so large [duplicate]
Everyone. I have a very difficult thing to do. I have a Linux server, and the root directory has 16GB of space.
df -h, shows the / directory has been used for 15GB, but
du -sh shows that only 5.9GB ...
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Disk usage irregularities [duplicate]
can somebody please explain to me how is this possible?
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 204G 170G 24G 88% /
du -ah / | sort -rh | head -20
121G /
88G /...
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What's eating my disk space?
I'm running Linux Mint 14 Nadia. The Linux partition has 10G. When the system starts, du reports 80% usage. Then the usage slowly grows until it reaches 100% and the system becomes unusable. (It ...
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Invisible file footprint (du vs df)
I am aware of the expected reasons that du and df will report differences, however I cannot imagine these would justify the discrepancy I am seeing:
[[email protected] mynfsmount]# df -h /opt/...
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I see the sizes of the files on a disk incorrectly
Running services are filling up disk space. I reboot it frees up disk space. How can I find files created by programs in disk space but not visible with the "du -ch /.[!.]* /disk1" command.
$...
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