Re: df

["Nathan C. Burnett" <burnet26@cps.msu.edu>]

This is probably because a certain percentage of the filesystem is
reserved for root.  This means that when the filesystem appears "full"
to a regular user, root can still write to the disk.  When this
happens the disk shows being over 100% capacity.

The reason for this is, if the root filesystem is full this can
prevent users from logging in.  Reserving a portion of the filesystem
for root allows the superuser to log in to correct the problem.

So, no, nothing is wrong.

l8r, Nate


On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, iquest wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I just realize that the output from df command does not add up. The
> used
>   and available columnes do not add up to be the 1024-block columne!  Is
> it
>   something wrong?
> 
> 
> /dev/sdc1            1414447  693828   647525     52%   /debian/hamm
> 
> 
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> Timothy C. Phan
> Intelligence Quest Research, INC.
> 
> 
> 
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