tag 33303 notabug
close 33303
thanks
On 11/7/18 5:07 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Was looking to see when the underlying filesystem
> changed in a path.
>
> I used:
>> stat -f -c%f /
> 82100000000
> stat -f -c%i /var
> 82200000000
>
> There are way too many zeros, not to mention being left justfied
> with zeros.
>
> What I might expect to see is more like this:
> 821
> or
> 822
I think you didn't notice that -f changes the functionality of the "%f" format.
>From 'stat --help':
-f, --file-system display file system status instead of file status
...
Valid format sequences for file systems:
...
%f free blocks in file system
You can see with strace that the printed value comes from 'f_bfree':
$ strace -ve statfs stat -f -c '%f' /
...
statfs("/", {..., f_bfree=1561242, ...}, ...) = 0
1561242
+++ exited with 0 +++
As such, I'm marking this as "not a bug" in our bug tracker.
Of course, discussion may continue, and we can re-open the issue if needed.
Have a nice day,
Berny
