Hi,
I made an interesting observation: the free and used disk space that is reported by df and du is inconsistent and even certain values reported by df alone seem to be inconsistent.
I have an encrypted home directory; I'm not sure if that matters. For what I am saying, the encrypted home is moutned/unencrypted.
I did reboot and the numbers did not change whatsoever. All the posts I found by googling suggest that problems due to open file handles should disappear after rebooting.
Here is the 'df -h' output:
If you look at /home/me/.Private, it says size 89GB (which is correct), used 80GB andavailable 4.2GB - should the latter two not add up to the first one
And if I do 'du -sh /home/me' (/home/me is my home directoy), I get 68GB!?! Looking at the size of my (non-system) folders, the sum is 60GB; so, apparently there are some hidden folders that are pretty large (which in itself surprises me... .kde is 1GB and .local is 3.8GB), but that does not explain the discrepancy with df!
Can anyone explain to me what is going on?
Thanks,
Chopstick
I made an interesting observation: the free and used disk space that is reported by df and du is inconsistent and even certain values reported by df alone seem to be inconsistent.
I have an encrypted home directory; I'm not sure if that matters. For what I am saying, the encrypted home is moutned/unencrypted.
I did reboot and the numbers did not change whatsoever. All the posts I found by googling suggest that problems due to open file handles should disappear after rebooting.
Here is the 'df -h' output:
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/kubuntu-root 89G 80G 4.2G 96% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev tmpfs 301M 868K 301M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 1.5G 872K 1.5G 1% /run/shm none 100M 16K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sda1 228M 166M 51M 77% /boot /home/me/.Private 89G 80G 4.2G 96% /home/me /dev/sdb1 917G 844G 27G 97% /media/data
And if I do 'du -sh /home/me' (/home/me is my home directoy), I get 68GB!?! Looking at the size of my (non-system) folders, the sum is 60GB; so, apparently there are some hidden folders that are pretty large (which in itself surprises me... .kde is 1GB and .local is 3.8GB), but that does not explain the discrepancy with df!
Can anyone explain to me what is going on?
Thanks,
Chopstick
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