Problem with disk space

[vedaprasad]

Hello guys this is vedaprasad

When i use du -sh /home to see the used space it shows 56k.I have mounted /home seperately with 1000mb,when i use df -h /home it shows total is 990mb , used 20mb and available 967mb. why is the diffrence so high ?
will / automatically assign space to /home even after mounting it seperatly .when i do cd /home and then try du -sh it shows 56k only .how can that be ? Will there be 2 home dir one mounted seperatly and the other which is under / .


thanks in advance

[Rubberman]

/home is probably a link, in which case you need to use the -L option to the du command in order to properly follow symbolic links. Unfortunatly, that will probably give you the wrong information also. If you add a trailing slash after the directory name, it will ignore the fact that it is a link. IE, try this: du -sh /home/

[HROAdmin26]

I would assume reserved space.

Google: ext3 reserved space

Basically, no data is on /home (56K) and df -ah shows 20MB used.