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Subject: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
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Herbert Wolverson <herbert@charizard.tsghelp.com> writes:

> This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the
> server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why
> this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry
> about this again!

"The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?"
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF

"How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?"
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL