charles f. zeitler wrote:
--- Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com> wrote:charles f. zeitler wrote:Instead of telling people what you are seeing it would be better to show the actual commands and output.i've been pruning my "downloads" disk, rather drastically, and not making a dent. today some more, less drastic but still hefty, same result. revisited du- checked it twice - three times- yup, it reports one directory at 800+ gb- on a 400gb disk! fsck (forced) failed to report any problems, there don't seem to be any symlinks, and the sub-direcory sizes are sane... any ideas welcome, and appreciated.good point. [fedora_8 Nyarlethotep ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 13250836 11459264 1107608 92% / /dev/sda9 1898468 825572 974904 46% /tmp /dev/sda11 270882768 259964688 5414052 98% /home /dev/sda10 1898468 1156484 643992 65% /var /dev/sdc1 480719056 370452080 105383136 78% /home/fedora_8/music_vids /dev/sda2 101105 17986 77898 19% /boot tmpfs 1037552 248 1037304 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 384578164 330445976 34596748 91% /home/fedora_8/torrents_isos /dev/sdb1 is the drive under discussion. [fedora_8 Nyarlethotep ~]$ du -sb t*s/* 34256010522 torrents_isos/backup 883393808812 torrents_isos/data 58352749159 torrents_isos/finished 75197043648 torrents_isos/finnished 18222558607 torrents_isos/isos 4781438 torrents_isos/logs 16384 torrents_isos/lost+found 4096 torrents_isos/lost_meta 193903286 torrents_isos/meta 1402434610 torrents_isos/new 75585799469 torrents_isos/porn 4096 torrents_isos/rar 1318803 torrents_isos/shas 4096 torrents_isos/tmp 97996487 torrents_isos/total_meta.tar.bz2 4096 torrents_isos/zip somethings wrong with t*s/data ....
OK.... I believe I know what the problem is. The torrents_isos/porn directory makes things seem larger than what they really are....
No, just kidding.....I believe you may have a bunch of non-completed torrent downloads. When you start a torrent download the client will reserve the space and it will be reflected in the output of "du" but *not* in the output of "df". Thus with "du" you can have a situation where it "thinks" more disk space is being used than it actually is. FWIW, this is normal.