Re: updating informations of file systems

[Chamith Kumarage <gnu.chami@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:03 +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Pol wrote:
> 
> > > Apart from anything else, "du" won't report the space used by files
> > > which have been deleted (unlinked) but still exist because a process
> > > is using them.
> > 
> > Sorry, i meant 'df'. 
> > Is it possible 'df' does not report the current amount of space used by
> > partitions?

General "df" output will describe the following fields..

Filesystem |1K-blocks | Used | Available | Use% | Mounted on

As Glynn explained, there are issues in "df" with networked filesystems
like NFS. There it will print blanks for attributes that the server
doesn't support.

~Chamith

> 
> No. Any allocation or deallocation of blocks will be immediately
> reflected in the output from "df" (for local filesystems, at least;
> there may be issues with networked filesystems).
> 
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