huge difference between du and df - no open file descriptors

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk
Wed Jul 30 13:01:39 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 30 July 2014 14:26:09 Nils Effenberger wrote:

> du and df are showing signifcantly different values on our storage
> system:
> 
> [root at zhoernchen ~]# df -h /
> Filesystem          Size    Used   Avail Capacity Mounted on  
> /dev/mirror/root    4.8G    4.1G   336M  93%    / 
> [root at zhoernchen ~]# du -shx / 
> 2.3G    /

Could it be that you have copies=2 set on any zfs filesystems on that 
partition?

-- 
Mike Clarke


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