On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:39:44AM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > I just installed potato using the 2.2r2 boot floppies. The problem I am > having is that the output of 'du' and 'df' does not agree. Specifically, > even though I created a 2.5Gb /usr/local/ partition on which I haven't > currently installed any SW, here is what df says about it:
This has come up before. I forget the full explanation, but if I remember correctly, df is closer to the truth. The info page linking to "du" says "Estimate file space usage", though there is no further mention of why it is an "estimate" in the actual "du" page. [snip...] > Partition info is as follows: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> > <dump> <pass> > /dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > /dev/hdc5 none swap sw,pri=3 0 > 0 > /dev/hdc6 none swap sw,pri=3 0 > 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 > 0 > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 > 0 > /dev/hdc7 /tmp ext2 rw 0 > 2 > /dev/hdc8 /home ext2 rw 0 > 2 > /dev/hdc9 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 > 2 > /dev/hdc10 /var ext2 rw 0 > 2 > /dev/hdc11 /usr ext2 rw 0 > 2 > /dev/hdc3 /backup ext2 rw 0 > 2 Put the /usr/local entry, after /usr. /usr is getting mounted on top of your /usr/local partition, hence the identical values. I think I'd also mount /home somewhere near the last entry. Linux is kinda funny about allowing a partition to be mounted more than once (reportedly a feature, rather than a bug). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
