[SLUG] Mismatch du and df??

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sluggers,

 doing a du -k -s on /var yields as the result

[305] [root@piquet] /var >du -k -s
40851   .

but doing a df /var yields:

[306] [root@piquet] /var >df .
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/rd/c0d0p7          241116    179863     48805  79% /var

HUH?

I had a logfile which exploded (my own fault) and /var was
100% full, I deleted that yet I still have 79% but du (which
sums by files) reports I should have around 30% (expected).


Any ideas??


jobst




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