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Wrong disk usage
| Posted by sh4ka, 05-12-2011, 09:59 AM | | Hi everybody,
I have a strange problem regarding disk usage on a CentOS plain box.
df command shows 75GBs used..
But du command shows only 23 GBs:
Other disk info that may help:
What is wrong here? Am I missing something?
What's the real usage for / ? 23 or 75 gb?
Thanks!
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| Posted by Jeremy, 05-12-2011, 12:13 PM | | I think they are calculating different numbers
Server I use for a poor mans VPN shows a diff of 2gb between your commands.
I run df -h for mounting points and to show usage and du -sh * to track down folders or files that are big.
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| Posted by CI-Andrew, 05-12-2011, 12:58 PM | | Now and again you can get inconsistencies in disk usage reporting which can be solved by doing an fsck on the drive.
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| Posted by stardust_x7, 05-12-2011, 02:27 PM | | You must run FSCK on the node.
Then,
Run Following command now
Now run
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| Posted by sh4ka, 05-13-2011, 06:36 AM | | After rebooting the server, the disk usage went normal and shows the same as du -sh
Thanks a lot for all the suggestions!
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