Re: discrepency between "df" and "du" on tmpfs filesystem?

[Hugh Dickins]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> 
> Someone noticed this on one of our machines.  The rootfs is a 256MB tmpfs
> filesystem.  Depending on how you check the size, you get two different
> answers.
> 
> root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/root> df -kl
> rootfs                  262144    255684      6460  98% /
> 
> root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/root> du -sxk /
> 204672  /
> 
> Anyone know what's going on?

df tells you what the filesystem says is in use or free, via statfs.
du goes looking at the contents of the filesystem, totalling stats.
Any files unlinked but held open will be counted by df but not by du.
There might also be a discrepancy over indirect blocks, I'm not sure.

Hugh
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