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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:43:24 -0800
From:      "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
To:        Mike Loiterman <mloiterman@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: du -sh inconsistant with df -h
Message-ID:  <BA220D4C.16935%pscott@skycoast.us>
In-Reply-To: <F93lZz02H67yRLVbNDN000116f0@hotmail.com>

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> From: "Mike Loiterman" <mloiterman@hotmail.com>
<snip>
> Where are the extra 1.6 megs at?

If a running process opens a file and then unlink(2)'s it, the file will not
show up in the filesystem, and du will not reflect any space it uses.
However, df will.

Paul

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