Re: Scary df output

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

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