Is it reliable to estimate the used space of a filesystem by summing up the sizes of the subdirectories of...
I have an external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. Under its top directory:
$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h
0 temp
7.5K $RECYCLE.BIN
25K System Volume Information
690M dir1
1.5G dir2
3.2G dir3
15G dir4
71G dir5
98G dir6
522G dir7
roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in used.
But
$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 932G 880G 53G 95% /media/t/My Passport
and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.
So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?
Thanks.
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I have an external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. Under its top directory:
$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h
0 temp
7.5K $RECYCLE.BIN
25K System Volume Information
690M dir1
1.5G dir2
3.2G dir3
15G dir4
71G dir5
98G dir6
522G dir7
roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in used.
But
$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 932G 880G 53G 95% /media/t/My Passport
and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.
So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?
Thanks.
hard-disk disk-usage
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I have an external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. Under its top directory:
$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h
0 temp
7.5K $RECYCLE.BIN
25K System Volume Information
690M dir1
1.5G dir2
3.2G dir3
15G dir4
71G dir5
98G dir6
522G dir7
roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in used.
But
$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 932G 880G 53G 95% /media/t/My Passport
and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.
So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?
Thanks.
hard-disk disk-usage
asked 5 mins ago
TimTim
27.3k78264473
I have an external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. Under its top directory:
$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h
0 temp
7.5K $RECYCLE.BIN
25K System Volume Information
690M dir1
1.5G dir2
3.2G dir3
15G dir4
71G dir5
98G dir6
522G dir7
roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in used.
But
$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 932G 880G 53G 95% /media/t/My Passport
and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.
So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?
Thanks.
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