On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:30:16PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 > Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote: > > > charlie derr wrote: > > > 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? > > I'm going on very hazy memory here, but it might give you enough info > > for googling. If I recall correctly, the system wants at least 10% > > free for "system overhead"; as 20Gig is only about 5% of your 440Gig > > partition, that's why it's showing as 100% used. > > > > Why rebooting would change this number is beyond me. > > > > This would make sense with a journaling filesystem such as ext3. > Immediately after a reboot the journal is empty. I would assume that gives diminishing returns as the new writes further impinge on journal space? I'm thinking your disk is full charlie :) A > > -- > > Liam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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