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Re: [SLE] Is the hard disk full? Cause found
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 02:14:26 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603030207490.17140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2006-03-02 at 23:40 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:

> I understand that du counts the sizes incorrectly.
> But there is another strangeness here:
>
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda4 9.4G 2.2G 7.2G 23% /home/user/sda4
>
> Before untaring the archive its size was 3.2 GB. Is it possible
> that after untaring its size became smaller? Or df also reports
> false values?

I would have to study that one to know for certain.

You can also measure the space used with "mc". I think it calculates size
summing up all files found.

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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