From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 18: 8:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B185637B405 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A91DBCFE; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA30778; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:08:36 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9T27SY49954; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Erik Rothwell Cc: Subject: Re: Discrepancies between 'df' and 'du'... References: <20011028095502.L33281-100000@endymion> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Oct 2001 18:07:28 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011028095502.L33281-100000@endymion> Message-ID: Lines: 5 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A whole lot of files of a little over n * 8K bytes could do it. A bunch of directories from which a whole lot of files have been removed could do it. (IIRC, directories never get downsized. I'm referring to the size you get from "ls -l directory".) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message