[clug-talk] Disk Space Discrepancy

[William Astle]

Jon wrote:
> A quick one...
> 
> Does anyone know why a du -sh /home/jdw shows 21GB but a right-click on 
> my home directory on Nautilus shows 16.7GB?
> 
> I know the 'du' is an estimate, but that's off by quite a bit. Unless 
> I'm misusing it or something?

"du" will count all the files and folders, including the "hidden" ones 
that start with a ".". Nautilus probably isn't counting those.

There can be quite a lot of space slurped up by the firefox cache, for 
example, among other things.

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William Astle
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