Hi, (removed linux-smp as irrelevant) sorry, I haven't read your message but 99.99% of claims that "df doesn't work" originate from people who don't suspect about old good minroot thing, i.e. check out -m option of mke2fs(8) command. Regards, Tigran On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Joe wrote: > FYI: I am sending this to both SMP and kernel as I have an SMP > machine. I don't know if there is a list for the ext2 filesystem > as I suspect that is where the problem is/was. > > Machine 'Dual' 233MMX with 128 Meg of RAM. Kernel 2.2.14, WD > 6Gig drive as hdb, Seagate 2.1 as hda. Linux is on hdb. > > Last night I did an rm -f on 4 files. The files sizes were 35M, > 390M, 250M, and 150M. After doing this I did a df -k. df -k > showed me having used 68 percent of my hard drive. So I then > did a du -s /* to see why. A few days earlier I had only used > 32% and had not installed ANYTHING. > du -s showed a file that was 2.6 Gig. It was .xsession-errors. > I then did an rm -f on this file. > > I again did a df -k and it still showed 68 percent of my disk > being used. So I repeated the du -s /*. This time du -s and df > -k did not add up. When I added up the output from du -s I had > about 35 % of my disk used. > > I rebooted the system, (windows thinking that this would help.) > It did not. du -s and df -k still showed different amounts of > disk spaced being used. I then did a full shutdown and waited a > few minutes then restarted. For some reason this time it told > me my disk was corrupt, and it ran fsck. After this completed > and I logged in, I did a df -k and it now showed 35% being used. > > I thought that you all should know that this happened and do not > know if it had something to do with smp or what part of the > kernel as I am NOT a kernel programmer. > > My only guess is that the pointers to these files got removed > but the kernel /fs never removed some internel pointer or some > reference to this data somewhere??? > > thanks Joe > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
