Questions tagged [df]
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Volume full according to vgdisplay, but not df
I am trying to shrink a ubuntu 16.04 extended partition using gparted. gparted and vgdisplay both show say the partition is fully used. So I can't shrink the partition. df says 5% is used (the correct value).
Here's the GParted screenshot.
And…

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CentOS df misreports free disk space (due to mounted volume?)
I have a server with an LVM volume mounted under /mnt. When running df -h to check free disk space, it appears to show the space consumed under /mnt as being used in /:
[root@monitor spool]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used…

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linux + how to know the time details from df command
is it possible to know when partition was mounted from storage volume?
for example latly we know about that netapp19:/volume/orsdcp_nfs was mounted on /oraT
but how to know when? ( regarding that we not have info from history command )
14:28:01…

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Why third partition of /dev/sda is shown as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda3?
I have two 3 TB disks in hardware RAID-1 (mirroring), controller DELL PERC H310 (it is a Dell PowerEdge R420 server).
I have three partitions on the same disk.
df and fdisk commands shows the third partition as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda3.
I…

Marco Marsala
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df show wrong output
My df -h output:
root@haier-ubuntu:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/haier--ubuntu-root 457G 433G 691M 100% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev …

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du and df show discrepant amounts of available disk space on my Linux server
I know that inodes aren't necessarily deallocated with certain removal/deletion methods that users/programs use. When inodes are still present and pointing to files that have been deleted, but two or more Linux utilities show a discrepancy with the…

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What are the best ways to monitor and report disk usage on solaris?
df and du provides a total view of usage but the problem with these is that they are not broken down per user.
Is there a tool that does this? I found quot but that only works on ufs. Is there an equivalent for zfs or nfs?
To breakdown the usage, it…

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df and du show different size and The size of the "/platform/sun4v/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
The server is running on Sun Sparc T5220 machine with Solaris 10 installed. I've run into the disk space problem recently. Done many research but haven't found any solution so i hope can get some help here.
When i do df command, it shows the disk…

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Linux 'df' command not showing root filesystem?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 at Rackspace. What could cause the root fs to not appear here?
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 2021824 12 …

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CentOS 6.5 DU and DF dont add up
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_bgsvn-lv_root 28G 26G 416M 99% /
tmpfs 495M 0 495M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 54M 407M 12%…

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df on 7.7GB shows 400MB available while du -sh / reports 3.8GB used
I believe df is reporting incorrect disk usage, as I have the following problem:
I deleted a few files to free up space, then run the following:
$ df -H
reports 7.7GB on Volume and 400MB available, however, running:
$ du -sh /
reports 3.8GB…

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Replacing files with symlinks takes more space - Fedora19 EXT4
Background:
We are using PHP CacheLite. In order to have a human readable path to cache files cache_{hash}_{hash}, there is a symbolic link that is more descriptive of the cache contents.
We deployed a new server and rather than warming cache via…

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Hide df usage from chroot user
I've setup a chroot jail for some users and that is running fine.
I want them to be able to use the df command (I'm using a modified etc/mtab file inside their chroot with just "/" specified) but I dont want them to be able to see the full usage…

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Missing hard drive on df -H command on Centos 6.4
I have 2*1000GB hard drives + 60GB SSD.
When I'm running df -H I'm getting "wrong" information about the server's hard drives.
The output
# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 78G 48G 26G …

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du, df and ls report wrong free / used space
We have an Ubuntu 12.04 server running on a VMware ESXi host, with multiple partitions, running Zimbra 8 (mta/ldap only). One of partitions is a 30GB partition mounted as /opt/zimbra/data. I had a rude wake up call this morning from my manager…

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