[SOLVED] df (GNU coreutils) 6.9 declares used space not visible to ls.
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The difference might be explained by the reserved blocks. A certain percentage of disk space is reserved for the super user (see the mke2fs manual page, the -m option).
You can see what the current block count and reserved block count are by doing the following:
Thanks, druuna. I thought something so could be happening, not sure though. Now, I forgot to tell the file system is ntfs, managed by ntfs-3g. But, I suppose something like that might be happening here.
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