Re: df discrepencies

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-05-01 10:08:55, schrieb charlie derr:
> On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df output 
> that I don't understand.
> 
> here's a part of the output from df -h
> 
> /dev/sda1             440G  420G     0 100% /backup
> 
> if i don't use the -h it looks like this:
> 
> /dev/sda1            461293804 440335112         0 100% /backup
> 
> It appears that there really are 20Gigs free, but that column shows 0 -- 
> can i reliably ignore that column and use subtraction with the previous two 
> to compute the true free space?

20GByte are around 5% of the afaillable 440 GByte which are
reserved for the superuser.

Try to do a 'tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1' and do a 'df -m' again...

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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