df is a standard Unix computer program used to display the amount of available disk space for filesystems
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Missing space on hdd linux?
michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 71G 65G 2.0G 98% /
none 495M 224K 495M 1% /dev
none ...
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Discrepancy between df and du
I have a question pertaining the difference from 'df -h' and 'du -bs'. I have seen several questions here about it, but the issue was always that 'df -h' was reporting more used space than 'du -bs'. I ...
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*nix shellscript: Get disk usage on multiple OSs
I am trying to get the usage-percentage for a given disk in a system. The program I have to write will be a bash shell script. The script has to work on Debian, Arch, and Mac OS X.
My current ...
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How can the 'df' Used be different after an rsync?
I've used rsync to copy an entire hard disk from one to another which was just newly formatted. It's about 640GB of data, but the destination hard drive has 750MB more that shows up under the 'df' ...
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devices after rsync df output not matching for “used” quantity?
I am making a backup from a two software RAID eSATA 2 TB drives formatted as ext4 to a 2 TB LaCIE rugged drive formatted as ext3. After re-formatting the rugged drive I did an rsync to make the copy ...
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df -h showing wrong output in GB
If I list df output for KB, MB and GB, they do not match e.g.
$ df -k |grep xvdb
/dev/xvdb1 12796048 732812 11413172 7% /xxx
$ df -m |grep xvdb
/dev/xvdb1 12497 ...
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How do I change the default for the “df” command in the Unix/Linux Terminal in the tcsh shell?
I am in the Unix/Linux terminal right now and I'm not in any kind of editor such as vi or emacs. Now when I type in the "df" command, I get the amount of disk free space in KILOBYTES. I want to change ...
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Running out of disk space on /home directory?
I have a 200GB HD and have just installed Linux Mint (12 - KDE) as the only OS (I formatted and wiped my previous Windows 7 installation). I am in the process of installing my "sandbox" and because ...
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In Linux, is it possible to get a listing of drives' disk space usage that also shows volume labels?
I know about df, of course, but df does not output volume labels. I have 5 USB hard drives plugged into my NAS box, and would love to know which is which.
Current df output:
Filesystem ...
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df reported size/used/available discrepancy
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Backups 425G 377G 27G 94% /Backups
Size = 425G
Used = 377G
Available = 27G
Used + Available = ...
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df reporting weird file usage info
This is on an ubuntu machine running jaunty (9.04). Yesterday there was 30 something gigs free, now df is reporting:
/dev/sda1 9.2G 5.1G 3.7G 59% /
none 966M ...
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How to analyse disk usage in command line linux?
du and df are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
