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Size Difference between QDirStat Reports and the "du" and "df" Commands #134

@shundhammer

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@shundhammer

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QDirStat sometimes reports a different total size than shell commands like du ("disk usage") or df ("disk free"), even when running QDirStat with full root permissions:

% sudo du -hsx /
9,4G	/

% df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc2        30G  9,5G   19G  34% /

% sudo qdirstat /

QDirStat-root-fs

It's even different from its own "Filesystems" window:

QDirStat-fs

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