Disk use not showing up in "df -k"

From: <jreed_at_appliedtheory.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:58:56 -0400

This is a weird one. On one of our alphaserver 4100s
running TU4.0F what you see from a "du -k" of a filesystem...

db0 # pwd
/u01-4
db0.lb0-syr.ajb.org # du -k -s
12051032 .

most decidedly does not coincide with output from "df -k":

db0 # df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
        :
18GB_4#u01-4 17769176 4913 5704416 1% /u01-4

I've seen situations where more is used than seems right, but
not where *less* is used than seems reasonable! This filesystem
has a whole oracle distribution on it, plus database files -
the 12GB is about right, and the "Available" space is probably
correct - so why does "Used" show 4MB in use?

TIA...
Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
Received on Mon May 21 2001 - 14:00:01 NZST

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