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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!tsoft!barfeau From: bbs.barfeau@tsoft.sf-bay.org (David Fox) Subject: Discrepancy in filesystem size? Message-ID: <gP64sB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> Sender: bbs@tsoft.sf-bay.org (BBS User) Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 20:06:27 GMT Lines: 14 Just a few minutes ago, when experimenting with find and tar (neat thing that popped up in comp.unix.questions) I created a rather large tar file. I essentially tarred up my entire home directory, resulting in a tarfile that was over 16 megabytes! (Yes, I know, my home directory is far too large, please don't flame me about this.) However, df -k reports somewhat less than 10 megabytes free. Question: Why are these different, and where did the missing ~7 megabytes come from? Do I really have more diskspace than df -k reports? -- David Fox (bbs.barfeau@tsoft.sf-bay.org)