[Techtalk] Different usage betweed df and du

Kathryn Hogg kjh at flyballdogs.com
Wed Jul 13 23:52:21 EST 2005


Sue Stones said:
> Is there anything else that could be taking up space but not visible to
> the filesystem?

Although I doubt it would count for the whole difference, I wouldn't be
suprised if du counts hardlinks twice.

Another option is that you've mounted another filesystem on top of the
filesystem you're running du on.


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