Inconsistent /tmp Sizes

[Martin Walshe]

On Jan 10, 2008 3:12 PM, Kenneth Jacker <khj at be.cs.appstate.edu> wrote:

> Adding to the strangeness if the fact that two different "disk
> utilization" programs produce different results:
>
>     # du -sh /tmp
>     423K    /tmp
>
>     ~# df -h /tmp
>     Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sda6             464M  421M   19M  96% /tmp
>
> Hi,
df will report the filesystem usage in this case of sda6 not of just the
/tmp directory.
The size of the tmp directory will change size while the machine is in use
as its where temporary files are stored and is cleared out usually upon
reboot.
Sorry if i have misunderstood your post and this isnt what the issue is.

Marty.
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