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df Command not Showing Proper Sizes

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 by digitalpeer

If you've just moved around a lot of data or there are currently programs reading or writing to the filesystem it's probably a good idea to use the --sync option when running df. It will flush the current disk i/o buffers and give you a little more accurate results.

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