On Thursday 04 June 2009 08:33:53 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
A file can be "removed" (its directory entry(ies) unlinked) and du will be unable to find it, but if it was open at the time all those links were deleted the file will continue to exist, occupy space and be fully usable by any process(es) with a descriptor leading to that file. ...
Df will always reflect the true existence of such files (*) (the space they occupy) while du has no way of including them in its usage total.
That is the explanation, and the reason for runlevel 1 as administrative runlevel. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org