IMO he compared ``df'' with ``df''. If I look at the original post I see some (multimedia related?) applications which I don't know. The difference makes about 2GB so I wonder if some of this application is of sort video. Could be that this app saves temporary files.
My 0,02$ Frank On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:10 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Botykai Zsolt wrote: > | just got some warning about lack of disk space, so I cheched it. > | # cd /home > | # du --max-depth=0 -m > | 3132 > | # df -m | grep home > | /dev/hda5 6733 5362 1030 84% /home > | > | Just thaught what hte heck??? > | started to worrying, so fired up this mail to ask smart people on this > list. > | while writing, did the same check (2 minutes later, bcause of some > | phone-calls). > | > | botykai-zsolt home # du --max-depth=0 -m > | 3132 . > | botykai-zsolt home # df -m | grep home > | /dev/hda5 6733 3165 3227 50% /home > | > | WHAT? > | > | Here is the konsole in front of me, so I was able to check the commands I > | issued. It is as seen above. > | > | What happened in those minutes? My computer ran xfce4, latest xorg, > some apps > | (OOo, sylpheed-claws, konsole, torsmo (which showed the disk space as > df did), > | root-tail, liferea, and xfmedia) the latest gentoo-dev-sources, ext3 > | filesystems and 2.6.10-r7. > | > | Any idea what is it? > | > > I have no idea what you mean by minutes, but the difference between > the sizes reported are do to the fact that df shows the amount of > disk space used including what is used by the file system. While > the du just reports what is being used by files and such. If you > create a new filesystem without anything in it, and then do a df > you will find that there is some space already taken. This space is > used by the filesystem for inodes and super block backups, etc. There > is also space reserved for root. > > HTH > Mike > - -- > Mike Noble > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 0xFFDFC13B > Key fingerprint: 8204 1297 B9AD 0CED 2FCE 1FB0 9491 5824 FFDF C13B > Keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCC+nwlJFYJP/fwTsRArbdAJ9jaZetyCx7oNv24S87MrPChvt1pgCfSe3P > wgZeYRpXwHzI7OyHRJHv9Cs= > =PAJr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
