[ubuntu-uk] df and du give different results

Martyn martyn.pattison at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 16:35:07 GMT 2008


> sudo du -hs /* gives me.....
>
> 3.1M    /bin
> 9.4M    /boot
> 0       /cdrom
> 172K    /dev
> 2.6M    /etc
> 39M     /home
> 4.0K    /initrd
> 0       /initrd.img
> 76M     /lib
> 48K     /lost+found
> 263G    /media
> 4.0K    /mnt
> 4.0K    /opt
> 514M    /proc
> 20K     /root
> 8.1M    /sbin
> 4.0K    /srv
> 0       /sys
> 12K     /tmp
> 263M    /usr
> 14G     /var
> 0       /vmlinuz


Are there any hidden directories in the / directory? cos if there are
you won't hit them with "sudo du -hs /* ", try doing a "sudo du -hs
/.* " too



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