du -h, the -h makes it in a 'human readable' format (i.e. MB, KB, GB) On 11 May 2004 12:26:30 -0500, Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> wrote: > I'm a little confused by what I am seeing with the du and df commands. > Regarding my partition mounted at /home, df says I've used 13443436k > (~13gig) while du says I've used 9914552k (<10gig) [see below]. > > This is a redhat 7.2 system. There are some files over 2 gig. I know > there was a 2gig linux file size limit at one time but I thought this > was resolved by the time RH 7.2 was released. > > I also thought it might be because of the difference in the way it > calculated used space, used blocks as apposed to actual file size, but > that it still too big of a difference. > > Fragmentation perhaps? Any thoughts? > > [root at ringmaster tomp]# df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 40316360 16172708 22095648 43% / > /dev/hda1 99521 20083 74299 22% /boot > /dev/hda5 16126920 13443436 1864284 88% /home > /dev/hdb1 115377640 70243776 39272952 65% /var/lib/mysql > none 386324 0 386324 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hdc2 44283936 26249508 15784928 63% /d > /dev/hda6 16126920 12389192 2918528 81% /mnt/new > > [root at ringmaster tomp]# du -s /home > 9914552 /home > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list