[clue-tech] Missing disk space?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 24 May 2005 01:44:00 -0400
Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> I just noticed that df on a partition does not result in anywhere near 
> the same amount of disk space being used reported by du.  Should I be 
> worried about something here?
> 
> angelo at descartes:~$ df -h
> /dev/hda6             4.1G   33M  3.9G   1% /home
> angelo at descartes:~$ cd /home
> angelo at descartes:/home$ du -sh
> 116K    .

Hmmm. 116K vs. 33M?

In addition to what others have mentioned, it might be that there's a
sparse file in there somewhere.

jed
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