If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of the partition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only 208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things added to it, nothing has ever been removed.
By my calculations there should be 218.8GB left, so if not the rest must be filesystem overhead. 5 percent seems to be a bit much, but as long as I can explain it I may be able to live with this. That is why I want a link to a site that could explain the overhead of the ext3 filesystem. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Mike McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:05 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File system overhead Tony Heal wrote: > anyone have a good link that explains why/what the ext3 overhead is. I have > a partition that looks like it has 8GB taken up by the OS and I need to > explain this. > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda9 219G 168M 208G 1% /opt What exactly needs explaining? I use this little script in a file called dirsize du -sm $(find $1 -type d -maxdepth 1 -xdev) | sort -gr You might try (as root) # dirsize /opt and get some feel where stuff is hiding out. Or are you claiming that it has no "files" in it. If it was once very full, and you deleted the files, then the directory structure may still be there. For example, if you had at one time thousands of files in /opt, but now it is empty, the directory would still be very large. What does # ls -ld /opt say? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
