On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
