On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, 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? df will include files that are in use but have been deleted - the space isn't freed up until whatever process is using it exits. fuser -m /home might tell you what process is still using files. Michael Young -- 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
