Sometime it happen that the command df and the command du report different results such as:
df -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 16G 12G 4G 75% /tmp |
While a du command show somethign different such as:
du -hs /tmp/ 10G /tmp/ |
There are usually different reason when this happen.
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In the past I’ve wrote an article about the commands du and df that can respectively give you information about the Disk Usage and the Disk Free of your Linux computer.
I personally use both of these commands a lot of times at work to check file system and/or directory, but I also understand that on a desktop with Linux you could use something more graphical to see the status of your partitions or directories, so today I’ll show you some programs that can achieve this goal: baobab, cdu, ncdu, JDiskReport and Filelight.
As system administrator , but also as common user on my PC, one of the more common problem is when a file system got filled up at up at 100% of its size.
So, in this article we’ll see 2 commands that can help us in keeping under control or check the space used in every filesystem and in his directory.
df : report file system disk space usage
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