Re: Serious problem with potato
the problem is your mounting /usr/local before /usr
change that ....i dont know if any data will be lost..but you must
always
mount lower level stuff first.
nate
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote:
>
> I just installed potato using the 2.2r2 boot floppies. The problem I am
> having is that the output of 'du' and 'df' does not agree. Specifically,
> even though I created a 2.5Gb /usr/local/ partition on which I haven't
> currently installed any SW, here is what df says about it:
>
> ssahmed@viper:~$ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 233336 13023 208266 6% /
> /dev/hda5 2403420 490220 1791108 21% /usr/local
> /dev/hda6 2403420 490220 1791108 21% /usr
> /dev/hda7 1929068 160 1830916 0% /home
> /dev/hda10 381139 200719 160742 56% /var
> /dev/hda11 303344 62 287621 0% /tmp
> ssahmed@viper:~$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 228M 13M 203M 6% /
> /dev/hda5 2.3G 479M 1.7G 21% /usr/local
> /dev/hda6 2.3G 479M 1.7G 21% /usr
> /dev/hda7 1.8G 160k 1.7G 0% /home
> /dev/hda10 372M 196M 157M 56% /var
> /dev/hda11 296M 62k 281M 0% /tmp
>
> Why do '/usr' and '/usr/local' have the *exact* same usage even though
> nothing has been installed on /usr/local as yet. And even though 'du'
> reports a completely different result.
>
> 'du -h /usr/local' produces different results:
>
> ssahmed@viper:~$ du -h /usr/local/
> 4.0k /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
> 4.0k /usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp
> 8.0k /usr/local/share/emacs/20.7
> 16k /usr/local/share/emacs
> 20k /usr/local/share
> 4.0k /usr/local/bin
> 4.0k /usr/local/man
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux
> 8.0k /usr/local/lib/site_perl
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/texmf/doc
> 8.0k /usr/local/lib/texmf
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/5.10
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts
> 16k /usr/local/lib/ghostscript
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages
> 8.0k /usr/local/lib/python1.5
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/site-python
> 4.0k /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp
> 8.0k /usr/local/lib/xemacs
> 56k /usr/local/lib
> 4.0k /usr/local/include
> 4.0k /usr/local/sbin
> 4.0k /usr/local/src
> 100k /usr/local
>
> Can someone explain to me why there is this incredible discrepancy
> between the disk usage reported by df and the disk usage reported by du
> ? I had this problem with my last installation of Debian but I thought
> it might have something to do with the fact that I was running
> woody. This time, I am running potato, fresh off an install.
>
> Partition info is as follows:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> /dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hdc5 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0
> /dev/hdc6 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc7 /tmp ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc8 /home ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc9 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc10 /var ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc11 /usr ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/hdc3 /backup ext2 rw 0 2
>
> My HD is a Maxtor 20Gb UDMA HD. Here is some output from dmesg:
>
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: Maxtor 52049H4, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: CREATIVE CD5233E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 52049H4, 19541MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63
> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
>
> During the install, as each partition was being installed, I selected
> the options to:
>
> - not retain kernel 2.0 compatibility
> - perform a bad block check on each partition
> - format each partition
>
> No bad blocks were reported. This is a brand new HD on a brand new
> system, both of which are approx. 3 weeks old. My system is a PIII on an
> ASUS CUSL2 motherboard w/256Mb RAM.
>
> BTW, I am experiencing the same thing on another Debian box (older HW)
> which is running woody kernel-2.2.17. This current system is running
> potato (2.2r2) and the kernel version is:
>
> Linux viper 2.2.18pre21-compact #1 Sat Nov 18 09:23:46 MST 2000 i686 unknown
>
> I'd appreciate any information, as I'd like to know what the problem
> is. If its a HW/HD problem, or what.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
>
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