Difference between df-h and fdisk command
linux
Solution
`df -h` displays all of the mounted partitions.
`fdisk -l` displays all of the partitions that exist on your disk.
Apparently there are some partitions which exist, but which are not mounted.
Problem
We know that df -h command shows disk usage in human readable format and fdisk command shows all the disks used in the linux partition. But when i am giving df -h command the following output has been shown: ``` **Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0 18G 2.9G 14G 18% / udev 1.4G 4.0K 1.4G 1% /dev tmpfs 576M 888K 575M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 1.5G 160K 1.5G 1% /run/shm none 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sda5 140G 52G 88G 38% /host /dev/sr0 225M 225M 0 100% /media/aritradas/McAfee /dev/sda3 150G 59G 91G 40% /media/aritradas/OS** ``` At the same time when i am giving fdisk -l command the following output has been shown: ``` **Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 257039 128488+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 258048 20979711 10360832 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 20979712 333627391 156323840 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 333627392 625139711 145756160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 333629440 625139711 145755136 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT** ``` From the above mentioned outputs it is clear that in the first output only `/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdba5 is displayed`. But in the second output `/dev/sda1,/dev/sda2,/dev/sda3,/dev/sda4,/dev/sda5` are displayed. Kindly let me know the why this difference between df -h and fdisk -l commands exists.