From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 13:23:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.de (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614EC37B418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 161Dgo-00089d-00; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 22:23:22 +0100 Received: from gmx.de (520085183262-0001@[217.224.149.50]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 161DgZ-0s10dsC; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 22:23:07 +0100 Message-ID: <3BE854BF.4090907@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 22:23:11 +0100 From: Sven Wittig Organization: Tigga.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DU vs. DF References: <20011106213343.D93645-100000@axis.tdd.lt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520085183262-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Domas Mituzas wrote: >>DU output : >>/dev/ad0s1e 19815 18926 -696 104% /var >>DF output : >>4310 >>so how crowded is my /var directory really, 4 or 18 MB ? > > du shows how much existing files take place, df shows file system usage. > you may delete a file, but if it it open by any program in userland, it's > data won't be erased from file system. Also, softupdates slow down > deletion process (you won't see immediate effect). Keep that in mind. thanks a reboot fixed it ... Sven Wittig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message