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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
df
says 8.9G used by the partition mounted in /
:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 227G 8.9G 207G 5% /
However, a du
in /
yields a much smaller number.
:~# du -chs /
5.5G /
5.5G total
I was expecting a smaller number, but why is to so much smaller?