On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >>> BTW, it might be worth knowing what filesystem the OP is using. In my > >>> case it's ext3. > >> FWIW, the OP is probably happy to have his problem solved. Chances are he > >> is running ext3 as most people take the default. > >> > >> What would be more interesting would be to know what file system you are > >> running. > > > > ext3, as I already said. > > Mis-read it. Sorry.... > > I run ext3 and it acts as I've said... The output of du and df differ. There's clearly some misunderstanding here, on one side or the other, or both. Forget it. poc