From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: xtekhne@gmail.com
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: updating informations of file systems
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:21:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18832.909.654717.28008@cerise.gclements.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gmor6i$urf$2@ger.gmane.org>
Pol wrote:
> Sometimes i happened to notice that the result of the 'du -s' command on a
> ext3 partition of my local disc does not yield the real value.
> My impression is that, some times, it may take hours, before the real space
> used by the partition being updated.
> Is that possible?
No.
BTW, "du" reports the space used by a specific set of directories. If
you want to know the total amount of space free and used for a
partition, you need to use "df".
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.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 8:55 updating informations of file systems Pol
2009-02-09 10:21 ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2009-02-09 14:43 ` Pol
2009-02-10 9:03 ` Glynn Clements
2009-02-11 11:53 ` Chamith Kumarage
2009-02-11 23:03 ` Pol
2009-02-12 6:48 ` Glynn Clements
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