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Old 01-29-2015
Different values output between du and df
Dear Gurus

I have a doubt:

Why df -h command shows me that /opt FS has used 3.0G:
Code:
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      9.7G  5.8G  3.5G  63% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
                      226G  171G   45G  80% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
                      496M   19M  452M   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
                      496M  101M  370M  22% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
                       25G  3.0G   21G  13% /opt

but du -ch /opt shows me a Total of 49G

Code:
# du -ch /opt
...
94M    /opt/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12
477M    /opt/java
49G    /opt
49G    total

?

What is real amount of used space into /opt: 49G or 3G ?

Thank you so much in advance for your time and support.

Best regards,

Orma
Last edited by joeyg; 01-29-2015 at 04:55 PM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data in CodeTags
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Old 01-29-2015
Something is certainly odd -- that filesystem only has 25 gigs available, there's no way the total could be 43. The df total isn't going to be wrong unless you have massive disk corruption anyway, so, 3 it is.

I wonder if your du is being tricked by multiple hard-links to the same thing. It could be counting some of the same files repeatedly. What's your system?
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Old 01-29-2015
Code:
# uname -a
Linux  2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:51:06 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-29-2015 at 09:06 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags again.
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Old 01-29-2015
Odd. I've checked, and GNU du specifically excludes hardlinked files.

I don't suppose you have any NFS-mapped folders in there, or something.

Try du -xch, the x to prevent it from stumbling into funny things like that.
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Old 01-29-2015
Now it look better than before; thank you so much Corona688, you were right:

Code:
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      9.7G  5.8G  3.5G  63% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
                      226G  171G   45G  80% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
                      496M   19M  452M   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
                      496M  101M  370M  22% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
                       25G  3.0G   21G  13% /opt


Code:
# du -xch /opt
4.2M    /opt/temp_jar
17M     /opt/RBTLucene
...
1.4M    /opt/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/man
6.2M    /opt/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/lib
94M     /opt/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12
477M    /opt/java
2.8G    /opt
2.8G    total
#

have a nice day.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-29-2015 at 09:10 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags again!
 
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