Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/24772: df and du provide conflicting data Message-ID: <200102010920.f119K2Z32705@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/24772; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: adsouza@math.uwaterloo.ca Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/24772: df and du provide conflicting data Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:14:29 +0200 On Wed 2001-01-31 (20:17), adsouza@math.uwaterloo.ca wrote: > >Number: 24772 > >Category: bin > >Synopsis: df and du provide conflicting data > >Severity: serious > >Priority: high > >Description: > I have a 300MB partition for /var and df claims that it has only 20 MB > free but when I run du -s . inside /var it shows only 130MB used. > This is rather alarming as I am now unsure of my filesystem integrity. You probably have a largish log file or two that are open, and were on /var, and were deleted. Try killall -HUP syslogd, and other similar log file consumers, and see if it continues to be out of sync. du and df don't have to correlate - they do different things. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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