Questions tagged [df]

df is a standard Unix computer program used to display the amount of available disk space for filesystems

19 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
4 votes
0 answers
70 views

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 ...
Brendan's user avatar
  • 41
3 votes
1 answer
2k views

Parse df output by columns

I'm having difficulty extracting the Filesystem and Mounted on columns from the df ouput. $df -Hl Results in Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %...
Dan's user avatar
  • 31
3 votes
0 answers
217 views

Explaination needed for strange `df` and `du` results

Can someone help me to understand the following output: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 8.0G 7.5G 167M 98% / udev 7.4G 8.0K 7.4G 1% /dev ...
smkengr's user avatar
  • 31
2 votes
0 answers
1k views

Raspbian: USB drive mounted and accessible but doesn't show on `df -h`

I have an USB drive connected to my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. The directories on it are accessible using cd, ls etc. but the drive doesn't show up when running df. It however does show when I run ...
RUrlus's user avatar
  • 21
1 vote
0 answers
2k views

BTRFS discrepancy between df and du

the difference between disk usage reported by df and du makes 20% of capacity of my drive. It is ubuntu-type btrfs filesystem with @ and @home. Where could be the problem please? df -h /dev/sda2 ...
Jan's user avatar
  • 357
1 vote
1 answer
2k views

Linux df command returns permission denied

Any ideas on how I can fix this, Im not sure it should return those results anyway... $ df df: `/var/named/chroot/etc/named': Permission denied df: `/var/named/chroot/var/named': Permission denied df:...
Jeffrey L. Roberts's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
3k views

Can I hide BIND mount points from DF?

Is there a formal way to hide the mount points of BIND from df (in CentOS 6.4) ? It's ugly and distracting. Apparently people have been complaining about it for a decade but I cannot seem to google ...
ck_'s user avatar
  • 1,905
0 votes
1 answer
211 views

Why are df and du command show inconsistent results?

When I run df -h it shows that 95% has been used in /data4 and I am the only user under /data4. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on overlay 591G 455G 136G 78% / tmpfs ...
martin's user avatar
  • 145
0 votes
0 answers
208 views

Why my disk not in /dev/diskstats

I can see the device /dev/xsda by df -h command. But the device not shown in /proc/diskstats. Instead, there are devices names as below: sda sda0 .... sda6 lsbk does not show the device either $...
Kramer Li's user avatar
  • 101
0 votes
0 answers
248 views

DF and DU show different usage, but LSOF shows no deleted files

I'm running Docker daemon on an RedHat host and Docker containers are being built here on a daily basis. After a couple of days the mount point reserved for the Docker daemon (/var/lib/docker) fills ...
Isegrimm's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
123 views

Why does it say no space available when a lot are avaliable?

$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 30G 290M 28G 2% / devtmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs ...
ling's user avatar
  • 123
0 votes
1 answer
145 views

Is there a way I can check which block of disk is really used?

I use df and du to check disk usage of centos,then I get different results from these tools. [root@localhost home]# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/...
Yvette Yu's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
833 views

Wrong available storage reported for mac os

The available space on my Macbook Air is not getting reported correctly. Hard disk capacity is 120GB out of which 17GB is getting reported as available space when I check HD info. When I see in ...
Ranjan's user avatar
  • 101
0 votes
0 answers
988 views

Why does the output of `lsblk` and `df -h` seem to conflict?

I'm trying to create a directory /mnt/data that will be mounted on to /dev/mapper/centos-home, since that's the biggest partition. The output of lsblk looks like this: NAME MAJ:MIN RM ...
Marcus Buffett's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
53 views

Debian df - What are my partitions

I have a debian server hosted by Kimsufi. It has 2TB of HDD storage. When I run df -h on my server I get this output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 20G 1.3G 17G ...
Vogon Jeltz's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
79 views

System check : lsscsi Vs df

Runnning lssci I get 3 disks infos : $ lsscsi [0:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 850 EMT0 /dev/sda [2:0:0:0] disk ATA VB0250EAVER HPG0 /dev/sdb [3:0:0:0] disk ATA ...
Romain Jouin's user avatar
-1 votes
1 answer
3k views

Disk space usage per owner, group or user

I am writing a small tool in which I need to find per-user, owner or group File-system-memory-usage. There is no quotas for each one, so all of them works under the same HDFS parameters in the ...
TheStromp's user avatar
-1 votes
1 answer
1k views

df says there is no free space, but there is free space

df shows there is no free space, but it also shows there is only 7,9/21G used. Filesystem Size Used Avail. Used% Mount path -> /dev/simfs 21G 7,9G 0 100% / devtmpfs 2,0G ...
Florian's user avatar
  • 13
-1 votes
1 answer
2k views

Is there something wrong with my disk partition?

# fdisk -l Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux /dev/sda2 501758 41940991 20719617 5 Extended ...
Bob's user avatar
  • 1