Re: du and df Used Space Inconsistent On Fresh Install

In list.debian.user you write:

I've just done a fresh install of Sarge 3.1r1 on an 8Gb partition on
an i386 machine here, basic packages only (no "tasks"), and on
checking space usage before proceeding I'm somewhat bemused by the
fact that du and df radically disagree on how much space has been used
so far.

In *single-user* mode :

# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 8354340 343808 7491140 5% /

# du -sk /
835383

df says ~340Mb used
du says ~830Mb used
that's quite a difference ....

Doinig a du from / is going to include all filesystems, not just
/dev/hda8. In particular /proc is going to be included and as the size
of /proc/kcore is equal to the amount of memory in the box, that could
add a sizable chunk to the difference.

Try:
# du -skx /

The -x restricts du to one file system.


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