It is odd that you mailed to bug-fileutils, even though you are using coreutils 5.94. That mailing list is obsolete; it is now the bug-coreutils mailing list.
> Alright, I've been using Debian for ages, and never ran across something > like this. It makes me wonder if it is affecting other programs on the > system as well. I installed GCC tonight and in the process it had to > upgrade libc6. It upgraded properly, and when it finished I rebooted the > machine just to play it safe. After it came back up I checked my free space > and got this: > > Primary:~# df -ah > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 -405370878767k 1.0k 0.0k 9% / There is a known bug with df reporting garbage negative sizes when statfs reported weird information; this was detected prior to 5.94, but the fix is only in CVS head and not backported to 5.94. http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/coreutils/src/df.c?rev=1.172&root=coreutils&view=log As to why statfs reports weird information, I'm not sure. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
