Re: df reports negative partition size

[wsa <wsa3@xs4all.nl>]

Not sure if this is related but i have have weirdness with df aswell
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg00575.html

And i don't have thousands and thousands of tiny files to explain
for the difference in reported size, nor could i find open
files with lsof.

cheers

Ernst Plüss wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If I run df -h on my debian machine, I get the following output
> debian:~/tmp$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 -3233790934511k 1.0k 0.0k 11% /
>
> If i do a cat /proc/partitions I get
> debian:~/tmp$ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name
>
> 3 0 12714912 hda
> 3 1 24066 hda1
> 3 2 136552 hda2
> 3 3 12546765 hda3
>
> An ideas why df is reporting a negative partition size?
>
> Actually this is only the symptom of my real problem. I tried to install a JDK 1.4 from Sun. Although there sould be somme gigabytes of free diskspace, it's reporting, that there's not enough space to install.
>
> Aftet having a look with df I think the JDK 1.4 installer is useing df and stops after seeing only 1.0k free.
>
> TIA
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