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Subject: Re: df & du showing different usages for /var
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>
> These wildly different results have me confused. How in the world can there 
> be a ~1.2GB difference between the disk space in use as reported by these two 
> tools? Which is right? More importantly, how do I fix this?

1) there is 1.2GB files open but deleted
2) there are snapshots


i don't know other explanation