> > Hi all, > > df shows my main partiton to have 1.1 Gigs of data > and du -x shows it to have about 650 MB. > > I think du is correct. > > df reads > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.1G 750M 60% / > /dev/hda3 15M 1.2M 13M 8% /boot > /dev/hda5 1.7G 1.2G 471M 72% /home > /dev/hda10 387M 281M 86M 77% /var > /dev/hda6 3.2G 2.6G 479M 85% /samba > > > If anyone knows what causes this and whether or not > I need to worry about it I'd be very grateful.
Could it be that your main partition has data in directories that have other file systems mounted on them? E.g., is there data in /home on /dev/ha1 that becomes invisible to du because /dev/hda5 is mounted on it? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
