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Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?



Ron Farrer wrote:

> I have two 2GB disks (SCSI-2 narrow) and this is what 'df' reports:
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8              1189183    632032    495712  56% /
> /dev/sda7              2029267   1694526    229834  88% /usr/src
> /dev/sdb5              2029267   1694526    229834  88% /usr
> /dev/sda5                 1427       438       989  31% /bp
>
> The problem with that is, "/usr/src" is NOT a 1.9GB partition!

Hi Ron,

It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr
I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src didn't
exist (yet) at the time /dev/sda7 was mounted.

Marc






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