[NTLUG:Discuss] disk space mystery

[Matt Moore]

It looks to me as if your confusing 'blocks' with 'megabytes' (sorry if I
am wrong-but it looks that way according to your email) instead of just
doing "df /" try using "df -h" (the "-h" means print out in 'human'
format) the 829768 used is not megabytes, but blocks-I really can't go
into an explaination of how to decipher this in one email-and besides I
would need to crack a book open because I forgot how...

Matt Moore
Operations Committee Member
Amarillo Linux Users Group
http://www.alug.org
mmoore at alug.org


On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Kevin Brannen wrote:

> For all you sleuths out there, here's one for you that's puzzling me...
> 
> When I do a "df /"  I get:
> 
>             1024-blocks   Used      Available
> /dev/hda6   893363        829768    17010          /
> 
> and I'm thinking, "where did it all go?", so I do:
> 
> tar -clf - / | wc -c        and get ~62M
> du -Sx                      and get 59810
> du -s /*  (and sum the non-mount points) and get ~60M
> fsck -n /dev/hda6           and get 860417 blocks used
>                                      58201 inodes
> 				      5135 reg. files
> 				      2554 dirs
>         			     ~3000 other file types
> 
> Umm, which is it?  About 60M or 830M?  Why the descrepency?   Nope,
> nothing in lost+found.  usr, var, home, opt are all on other
> partitions.  /tmp isn't that big.  Yes, I'm doing this all as root, so
> no "permission denied" messages because I can't look into various
> places.
> 
> What am I overlooking?
> 
> Kevin
> 
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