df showing invalid output

[Smith, Albert]

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Buggie
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:19 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: df showing invalid output
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:00 +0100, Anish Mathew wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am facing the following problem in my Redhat Linux
> > 7.3 which runs on an HP Proliant Server having hardware raid.
> > Kernel is 2.4.20-28.7smp.
> > 
> > I was having 1.4 GB free space in /opt.
> > This is the ouput of df -h
> > 
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  7.9G  1.4G  85% /opt
> > 
> > I moved around 7.5 GB of data from /opt
> > 
> > But the df -h output is not giving the correct available space.
> > it gives
> > 
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  5.7G  3.7G  61% /opt
> > 
> > The used space should be around 1.4.. why is this descrepancy...
> > 
> > Also i tried copying moved files back to /opt. But after 
> 4Gb copying 
> > failed stating no space left on device.
> > 
> > any comments appreciated.
> 
> 
> Without knowing what commands you ran to move the files and 
> the innards of your filesystems, I'd have to go on the 
> assumption that df is right and files are still there.
> 
> What does du -k /opt show?
> 
> Daniel
> 
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Do a du -sk /opt and post the results