Re: updating informations of file systems

Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pol wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Sorry, i meant 'df'. 
> Is it possible 'df' does not report the current amount of space used by
> partitions?

No. Any allocation or deallocation of blocks will be immediately
reflected in the output from "df" (for local filesystems, at least;
there may be issues with networked filesystems).

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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