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Disk full, du tells different. How to further investigate?

I have a SCSI disk in a server (hardware Raid 1), 32G, ext3 filesytem. df tells me that the disk is 100% full. If I delete 1G this is correctly shown. However, if I run a du -h -x / then du tells me ...
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Different output by df and du [duplicate]

I have an old RHEL 5.5 Box, When I fire df -kh I see that /var is of 49 GB with 100 % usage. But then I go inside the /var cd /var and I fire du -kh I see that only total 300 MBs are used. I ...
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df -h shows 100% usage but sizes don't add up [duplicate]

I have a situation where my root filesystem is supposed to have plenty of free space, but Debian behaves as if it had no free space left. Non-root users even refute to write anything complaining about ...
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CentOS 6.5 DU and DF dont add up [duplicate]

# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_bgsvn-lv_root 28G 26G 416M 99% / tmpfs 495M 0 495M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 ...
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Inconsistency between "du -sh" and "df -h" [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: du vs. df difference I am running a server with Debian stable. If I call: df -h this is the result I get: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/...
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df on 7.7GB shows 400MB available while du -sh / reports 3.8GB used [duplicate]

I believe df is reporting incorrect disk usage, as I have the following problem: I deleted a few files to free up space, then run the following: $ df -H reports 7.7GB on Volume and 400MB ...
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du and df show discrepant amounts of available disk space on my Linux server [duplicate]

I know that inodes aren't necessarily deallocated with certain removal/deletion methods that users/programs use. When inodes are still present and pointing to files that have been deleted, but two or ...
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CENTOS, problems to identify why a user is using so much space [duplicate]

I am having disk space issues with my CentOS server, a single user is using up to 1,7tb of data, or it is what the du -sh* /home command is telling. But when you enter the user folder and use the du -...
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No free disk space [duplicate]

I have weird situation because Linux df command says that there is no free disk space [root@backup cache]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 72G ...
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How do I find out what is using up all the space on my / partition?

I am on a large instance on Amazon's EC2 servers. I run the df command and get: root@db:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 9.1G 284M 98% / ...
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df reports wrong free space for an Ext4 partition

My system is CentOS 6 x86_64 with root partition formatted as ext4. df reports around 3Gb as used space: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 ...
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Ubuntu "No space left on device" for /home, df shows 100% full, ds shows much, much less [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Linux different size for df and du for root partition On an Ubuntu 12.04 server, normal users can no longer create or add to files in /home, encountering a "No space left on ...
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df report incorrect free space for a filesystem (ext4)

I am facing an issue with wrong fs space reported by df. We are talking about bare metal Ubuntu 14.04 server, with the / partition managed by LVM. Size reported by df is different from the size ...
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Near 100% disk usage, df and du show very different results, lsof not the answer

The issue is that my CentOS 5.8 machine is telling me that I am nearly out of disk space when I am pretty confident this is not the case. I've done a fair amount of researching on this issue and have ...
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df -h shows / is 100% but du -sh * is not showing where the utulization is [duplicate]

OS: Oracle Linux 7.5 df -h keeps showing that / is 100% full but searching on / with du -sh * is not showing where that utilization could possibly be, any help and suggestions will be appreciated. I ...
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