du disk usage and apparent size huge difference (Terabytes vs Kilobytes)

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I know that when using du utility, disk usage is bigger than apparent size because of the blocks that are not fully used. But here there is something else. On a particular folder, du without apparent-size returns 97T, with the flag, 24K. Nothing particularly interesting on that folder tho



root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# ls -lha
total 97T
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 8 06:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 2 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Apr 4 2016 cheese-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Sep 6 05:35 firefox-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Nov 12 2015 gnome-aisleriot-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K Nov 4 2015 gnome-power-statistics-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Apr 8 2016 orca-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 14 2016 org.gnome.Calendar-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Oct 27 2015 seahorse-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Aug 22 2016 session-properties-symbolic.svg
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h
97T .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h --apparent-size
24K .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -b
23935 .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1604 4.4.0-134-generic #160-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 14:58:00 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# df -h | grep "/$"
/dev/sda2 218G 188G 19G 92% /


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  • The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
    – Goro
    Sep 13 at 14:23










  • What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
    – ErikF
    Sep 13 at 15:52














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I know that when using du utility, disk usage is bigger than apparent size because of the blocks that are not fully used. But here there is something else. On a particular folder, du without apparent-size returns 97T, with the flag, 24K. Nothing particularly interesting on that folder tho



root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# ls -lha
total 97T
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 8 06:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 2 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Apr 4 2016 cheese-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Sep 6 05:35 firefox-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Nov 12 2015 gnome-aisleriot-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K Nov 4 2015 gnome-power-statistics-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Apr 8 2016 orca-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 14 2016 org.gnome.Calendar-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Oct 27 2015 seahorse-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Aug 22 2016 session-properties-symbolic.svg
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h
97T .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h --apparent-size
24K .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -b
23935 .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1604 4.4.0-134-generic #160-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 14:58:00 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# df -h | grep "/$"
/dev/sda2 218G 188G 19G 92% /


Why is this happening? (This is a VM on a ESXi server)










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  • The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
    – Goro
    Sep 13 at 14:23










  • What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
    – ErikF
    Sep 13 at 15:52












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I know that when using du utility, disk usage is bigger than apparent size because of the blocks that are not fully used. But here there is something else. On a particular folder, du without apparent-size returns 97T, with the flag, 24K. Nothing particularly interesting on that folder tho



root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# ls -lha
total 97T
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 8 06:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 2 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Apr 4 2016 cheese-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Sep 6 05:35 firefox-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Nov 12 2015 gnome-aisleriot-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K Nov 4 2015 gnome-power-statistics-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Apr 8 2016 orca-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 14 2016 org.gnome.Calendar-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Oct 27 2015 seahorse-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Aug 22 2016 session-properties-symbolic.svg
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h
97T .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h --apparent-size
24K .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -b
23935 .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1604 4.4.0-134-generic #160-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 14:58:00 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# df -h | grep "/$"
/dev/sda2 218G 188G 19G 92% /


Why is this happening? (This is a VM on a ESXi server)










share|improve this question













I know that when using du utility, disk usage is bigger than apparent size because of the blocks that are not fully used. But here there is something else. On a particular folder, du without apparent-size returns 97T, with the flag, 24K. Nothing particularly interesting on that folder tho



root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# ls -lha
total 97T
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 8 06:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 2 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Apr 4 2016 cheese-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Sep 6 05:35 firefox-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Nov 12 2015 gnome-aisleriot-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K Nov 4 2015 gnome-power-statistics-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Apr 8 2016 orca-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 14 2016 org.gnome.Calendar-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Oct 27 2015 seahorse-symbolic.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Aug 22 2016 session-properties-symbolic.svg
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h
97T .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -h --apparent-size
24K .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# du -b
23935 .
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1604 4.4.0-134-generic #160-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 14:58:00 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu1604:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps# df -h | grep "/$"
/dev/sda2 218G 188G 19G 92% /


Why is this happening? (This is a VM on a ESXi server)







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  • The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
    – Goro
    Sep 13 at 14:23










  • What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
    – ErikF
    Sep 13 at 15:52
















  • The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
    – Goro
    Sep 13 at 14:23










  • What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
    – ErikF
    Sep 13 at 15:52















The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
– Goro
Sep 13 at 14:23




The output of the command du -h are the sizes for every directory and subdirectory. How you gott 97T?
– Goro
Sep 13 at 14:23












What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
– ErikF
Sep 13 at 15:52




What does fsck say about this filesystem? (I'm going to bet that it will find some errors!)
– ErikF
Sep 13 at 15:52















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