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Hi, I'm running Red Hat 9.0 and my /var partition is 300Megs. My system claims that /var is 100% full using df -k but when I "cd /var" then do "du -h" it shows only 27 Megs in use. Why the discrepancy?
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 18.3+19.3, MX-18, Mandrake
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Um, this is an extremely old thread, but just for those who stumble over it e.g. during a search: as far as I know "du" looks only at the files which are closed during its run, hence (possibly) the discrepancy...
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Originally posted by philforrest
... Turns out that the partition was out of inodes.
My first understanding would have been, that there were too many (small) files. But ...
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Originally posted by philforrest
Whoever formatted the partition did so with . ...
... this indicates otherwise. How (what program, which options) can one even format "with chunks that were too large"? What are chunks? Can you please explain a little more detailed...
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