Re: Scary df output
Quoting Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>:
> I assume comand "df" is the one to know free disk space. It gives me
> this information:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 -429168968127 1 0 49% /
>
> according to which I have a negative number of blocks! Also, the columns
> seem to be disaligned because of that. Hand-correcting:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 -429168968127 1 0 49% /
>
> How should I interpret this?
>
The 49% is probably correct. I encountered this several months ago.
AFAIK, it was a mismatch of glibc and df versions. It took judicious
application of dpkg commands to straighten it out. I.e., it was
scary, low-level, error-prone, and I have blanked out that traumatic
memory.
Jeffrey
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