du and df is different results lsof

disk usage of all subdirectories and files including hidden files within the current directory (sorted by filesize) :



du -sk .[!.]* *|sort -n



or



du -schx * is much better



Why the discrepancy? Occasionally extremely large files that have been recently deleted will still hold onto their resources; this can be discovered by running lsof (in this case, lsof +L1). Oftentimes, a reboot will clear this.



lsof +L1