df very different than du and ncdu

[itcoil]

On my C2 with a 32GB eMMC 'df -h' says /dev/mmcblk0p2 is 91% full but I can't find what is using the space because du shows what I believe to be the accurate number which is only 19G used, not 25G as df says. Anything I use to look deeper at what is allocating that space (like ncdu or du) does not show that space as being allocated, so how can I fix the problem and get 'df -h' to show the correct amount of free space?

Here is 'df -h'

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Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs  734M     0  734M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     172M   11M  161M   7% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2 ext4       29G   25G  2.7G  91% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     858M   79M  780M  10% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     858M     0  858M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat      128M   18M  110M  14% /media/boot
tmpfs          tmpfs     172M     0  172M   0% /run/user/1000

but 'du -h /' says:
19G /

I would like to reclaim the lost 6G.

[mad_ady]

Have you rebooted? Most likely the allocated space is part of a deleted file that is still open. Try lsof | grep delete before reboot.

[itcoil]

I just tried 'lsof | delete' and nothing was returned. Then I rebooted but I still have the same results as above. I have tried rebooting before.

[mad_ady]

Well, it could be lost space due to fragmentation caused by loads of very small files (<4k), but you'd need to have quite a lot of them to eat up 6G. Like 3 million 2kB files...

[itcoil]

Could it be related to the following? Sometimes I mount a directory on the C2 as an NFS drive, from another computer (a Pi), and I have moved many GB into the C2 directory and also deleted the GB when the C2 directory was mounted as an NFS drive. The way I deleted them was by dragging them to the trash in the GUI on the Pi and then emptying the trash. Is there any chance that the C2 still thinks they are in its memory? If so are there any steps I could take to clear up the confusion?

[mad_ady]

You should see deleted files (things that are in .Trash for instance) in du...
You can also try to run a fsck on the partition (offline) and see maybe there is lost space due to filesystem issues...

[itcoil]

Running fsck on the partition (offline) seems to have solved the issue. 'df -h' now shows all the open space that 'du' does.
Thank you for your help.