/tmp shows 690 Mb full, actual size 72 K, Why?
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Why is /tmp diretory on my system showing 690 Mb full, whereas du -sh /tmp shows only 72K full.
drwxrwxrwt 2 lightdm lightdm 4096 Aug 29 21:49 at-spi2
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:50 keyring-0JTfoY
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:44 keyring-rChLLL
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jul 22 02:10 lost+found
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Jan 1 1970 orbit-ankit
drwx------ 2 lightdm lightdm 4096 Aug 29 21:50 pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 21:44 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:50 pulse-zR1TZUAZfmQW
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:44 ssh-dlslOXOq2203
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:50 ssh-MrQQVRyy3316
-rw------- 1 ankit ankit 0 Aug 29 21:45 tmp0qnNG4
-rw------- 1 ankit ankit 0 Aug 29 21:50 tmpVvSMt6
-rw------- 1 ankit ankit 0 Aug 29 21:49 tmpy9Gadz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lightdm lightdm 0 Aug 29 21:44 unity_support_test.0
ankit@duster:/tmp$ df -h
df: `/home/ankit/.gvfs': Transport endpoint is not connected
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 79G 11G 65G 14% /
udev 2.9G 4.0K 2.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.2G 868K 1.2G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.9G 220K 2.9G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda7 38G 690M 35G 2% /tmp
/dev/sda5 93G 26G 63G 30% /home
/dev/sda6 93G 1.6G 87G 2% /boot
/dev/sda3 154G 69G 78G 48% /home/mount_150
ankit@duster:/tmp$
ankit@duster:/tmp$
ankit@duster:/tmp$ sudo du -sh /tmp/ 72K
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