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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!esmeralda.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: When df disagrees with du Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 17:45:40 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 33 Message-ID: <328290C4.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <E0Ho83.Ex9@news2.new-york.net> <2579@847379155> <55tm62$2j7@newsbr.eunet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Frederic MARAND <Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr> Frederic MARAND wrote: > > "Kenneth Chiu" <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > > >In article <E0Ho83.Ex9@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: > >>I've had the df on one of my 2.1R servers tell me that /var is 107% full, > >>deleted some large files there,done du and gotten a figure for blocks used > >>in var,done df again(over periods of hours) and still been told(despite > >>checking the directories again,no new growth) that over twice that much > >>space is in use and that it's still 107% full. > > >Hmm...is it possible that a process is unlinking a still open temp file? > Usually, du sums up the file sizes in the subtree, whereas df uses the > inode count. This means du represents your data volume and df > represents your used disk space, which is normally larger than the > data volume. > > Of course, having 107% occupancy means there is a bug somewhere. No, there is not a bug. When you create a partition, you normal have a certain amount of reserved space (5 to 10%). Thus, 100% occupancy means that the normally available space is full while the additional 7% is related to the use of the reserved space. man newfs see the -m option. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html