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# 1  
Old 05-14-2013
Not able to track harddisk usage by root
Hi all !

I am unable to track 6 GB memory through df -h command
please anyone tell me why its showing 57M though used memory is 101G

OS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-Bit

Code:
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9       107G  101G   57M 100% /
udev            1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           776M  944K  775M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            1.9G  156K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda8       962M   68M  846M   8% /boot
/dev/sda10       80G   62G   14G  82% /local_server
/dev/sda1       100M   25M   76M  25% /media/System Reserved
/dev/sdb1       932G  597G  336G  64% /media/Iomega

# 2  
Old 05-14-2013
I guess df wont count the file size which comes under root and nobody thats why there is difference in the size.
# 3  
Old 05-14-2013
Thank you.

is there any way to move my Vmware to external HDD, without disturbing contents, which is installed in internal HDD, so that at least I can use some space.
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