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can somebody please explain to me how is this possible?

df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2        204G  170G   24G  88% /

du -ah / | sort -rh | head -20
121G    /
88G /var

So, essentially my / folder is 121GB large (running all as the root user), but my hard drive is 170GB full?

Running the Ubuntu 12.04.

Relja
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df counts metadata towards the total disk usage while du only looks at the plain disk usage.

William
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