Can you try the same thing from the host and compare?
Perhaps you have many hardlinks, I believe that du
counts each one as extra space. Which number to you
think is actually correct, du or df?
-Martin
--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>
> Subject: [vserver] incorrect filesystem usage in guest...
> To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 3:56 PM
> Hi,
> I have found my vserver-guest does not report filesystem
> usage correctly:
>
> # pwd
> /root
> # du -s -k
> 3444152 .
> # df
> Filesystem
> 1K-blocks Used
> Available Use% Mounted on
> rootfs
> 20971520 2578996
> 17327564 13% /
> /dev/root
> 20971520 2578996
> 17327564 13% /
>
> You see? In just one directory /root there is ~3.4GB of
> data,
> yet filesystem usage for this partition says only ~2.6GB is
> used.
> How is this possible???
>
> Jarry
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Received on Wed Sep 15 00:53:36 2010