Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:55:30 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: du and df don't agree Message-ID: <20081111105530.GA94707@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <49194EE2.7060708@IMAP> References: <49185ABC.6080004@earthlink.net> <20081110162111.GA26951@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20081111080321.GA94210@ei.bzerk.org> <49194EE2.7060708@IMAP>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:22:42AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen typed: > Ruben de Groot wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:21:11PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein typed: > >>On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > >> > >>>Why would du show 630k used by /tmp while df show 161M used > >>>by /tmp? > >>> > >>>I have run fstat /tmp and can't find any files that are using > >>>the space that df is claiming as being used. > >>You need lsof +aL1 /tmp to see an answer. > > > >Please don't advise people to install third party apps (lsof) where > >base system tools (fstat) can do the job. > > Why not? Because it gives the impression the base system is incomplete, which it is not, at least not in this situation. The wording "you need lsof" is plain wrong. > This is one of the ways I pick up on all kinds of nice tools I've not heard > of before. And it is not like this is swamping the list with of topic > questions. Difference of opinion; I prefer to use FreeBSD tools before falling back to 3rd party tools, no matter how nice. > You might have redirected the question to questions@ I don't see the point. Why didn't you redirect it? > OTOH > The initial question indicated that fstat did not give the info wanted. > Your info does not help, because you told him to use fstat, but forgot to > mention HOW. So he is in no way any wiser after your answer. Yes, my bad. But he allready found the answer himself (using fstat -f I guess). Ruben
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