From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chamith Kumarage Subject: Re: updating informations of file systems Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:23:40 +0530 Message-ID: <1234353220.19468.9.camel@CHAMITH> References: <18832.909.654717.28008@cerise.gclements.plus.com> <18833.17112.915720.862631@cerise.gclements.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18833.17112.915720.862631@cerise.gclements.plus.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Glynn Clements Cc: xtekhne@gmail.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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). > -- *** Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems ***