Re: updating informations of file systems
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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Pol wrote: > Sometimes i happened to notice that the result of the 'du -s' command on a > ext3 partition of my local disc does not yield the real value. > My impression is that, some times, it may take hours, before the real space > used by the partition being updated. > Is that possible? No. BTW, "du" reports the space used by a specific set of directories. If you want to know the total amount of space free and used for a partition, you need to use "df". Apart from anything else, "du" won't report the space used by files which have been deleted (unlinked) but still exist because a process is using them. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html