On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > On 10/22/2010 03:10 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:59 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: >>> I've been building out a new laptop and trying to copy over the contents of my userspace from my old laptop to my new laptop. I >>> keep running out of space on my new laptop even though my home directory is only 6.6Gb and the userspace (/home) on the new laptop >>> hase 156Gb of space. So I cleared out everything from my /home directory on my new machine and now I see this: >>> >>> [root@ktmtoshiba /]# du -sh home >>> 24K home >>> >>> [root@ktmtoshiba /]# df -h >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_root >>> 50G 7.2G 40G 16% / >>> tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm >>> /dev/sda5 485M 28M 432M 6% /boot >>> /dev/mapper/vg_ktmtoshiba-lv_home >>> 164G 188M 155G 1% /home >>> >>> >>> How can du show that home is 24k (which is probably ok since there are no files in there, just my home directory and lost+found) >>> while df shows /home as having 188M used? >>> >>> Any pertinent thoughts welcome. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Kevin >> Block size vs. file size >> > No matter how you cut it 188Mb doesn't equal 24K. Something seems funky here. How much space is taken up by the filesystem journal? -- Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines