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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: du vs. df
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.154826.28813@mccc.uucp>
Date: 18 Nov 90 15:48:26 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
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From TFM, it appears to me that "df <filesystem>" and "du -s
<filesystem>" should give complementary reports, the first giving the
number of 512 byte blocks remaining in <filesystem> and the latter, the
number used.  On a 3B2/400 running SVR3.1.2, they don't.  "du -s /usr2"
reports 1049 blocks used.  "df -t /usr2" reports 108424 free, 117404
total, or 8980 blocks used.  The only files that exist in /usr2 are
directory files.

Could someone please explain what's going on?  Oh, I seem to have lost
incoming news, so would you please email your reply?  If anyone else is
interested, I'll post a summary of the replies.

Thanks,
Pete
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