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Disk usage (du) displays TB not MB

I have an issue while running du that it does not display the usage in units of Megabytes (as expected with -m switch) but TB: $ du -mhs /mnt/b 2.0T /mnt/b How can I get a more granular result?
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DU shows fluctuating up then down totals during active rsync

I have 2 CentOS systems, one is rsyncing a ~411 gig directory to another. On the receiving system, I typically run du -cs * |grep total;sleep 5 as a way to monitor the background rsync operation and make sure it is actually happening, since I don't…
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Why hasn't disk usage decreased by 6,728k after hard linking a file away?

Given this sequence of commands… $ pwd /data/backup/rsnapshot $ sudo du -csk daily.{2,3}/ruminant 1195040 daily.2/ruminant 36712 daily.3/ruminant 1231752 total $ ls -isk /data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.3/ruminant/home/andy/vmunix \ …
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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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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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Understanding du -sh command output

I have 1 TB of space. I am trying to find disk usage of a folder. du -sh command output 354M Arts 2.6M Digicams 308M Internet 391M Location 2.2G Media 110M Religion 4.8T Sports /*What is T how can it be Terabyte*/ df…
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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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Does linux count s3fs mounts as local disk usage?

I have an s3 bucket mounted on an EC2 instance whose main disk is an EBS volume. Whenever I run something like du -h /path/to/mount it tells me the size of the folders within those. I'm wondering now if Linux is counting the space used in those…
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Maximixing performance for disk usage queries in linux using du -s or df while maintaining accuracy?

I'm running a script to find out the disk usage on a wide range range of VPS (size ranging from less than 1 GB of usage to over 200 GB of usage)... I'm trying to maintain performance (EG: no extra load on the VPS) while maintaining accuracy. df is…
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No disk space on / (Debian Jessie)

I have a problem with disk space on my dedicated server. I have no disk space available on partition / root@server1:/# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 96G 96G 0 100% / devtmpfs 63G 0 63G …
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Map linux folders by size

I have AWS linux instance, Currently there are many folders in the instance. I would like to map all the folders and their size, so i could come back in 1 month and check which folder occupy high amount of storage (maybe the logging folder). What…
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finding directories that consume a lot of the AFS volume quota

The AFS volume quota is almost exceeded for one of our computer users. Running fs listquota or fs lq gives him a warning: olifri@ubuntu:~$ fs listquota ~ Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition H.olifri …
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Du tells me it can't find the current directory?

I'm on AIX, and in some directories I can't use the du command. I get the follow error message: du: 0653-175 Cannot find the current directory. Obviously the current directory exists, and I have permissions to it. I can list the directory and…
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