[Mageia-dev] df lying?

Mon Jan 7 11:56:52 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Felix Miata at 07/01/13 06:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> What is upstream for df command? 
+
+rpm -qf `which df`
+coreutils-8.20-1.mga3
+
+So http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ I guess.
+
+> In openSUSE 12.2, Cauldron & F18 on the
+> same 64 bit system, df on the only partition on my 1TB data HD is
+> obviously lying as to usage and free on a nearly full EXT2 partition:
+> 
+> # df    # before copy
+> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
+> /dev/sdb1      968990412 942397904  26592508  98% /disks/esata
+> 
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5548561312 Jan  6 14:59 monk0714IonE-201301061400s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5548200540 Jan  6 15:59 monk0715IonE-201301061500s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5548657192 Jan  6 16:59 monk0716IonE-201301061600s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5547676772 Jan  6 17:59 monk0801IonE-201301061700s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5546660256 Jan  6 18:59 monk0802IonE-201301061800s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5547738436 Jan  6 19:59 monk0803IonE-201301061900s2.ts
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 5548427644 Jan  6 20:59 monk0804IonE-201301062000s2.ts
+> 
+> # df    # after copying above 37,925,705K bytes in 7 files to
+> #       # /disks/esata from another system on the network
+> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
+> /dev/sdb1      968990412 942397904  26592508  98% /disks/esata
+> 
+> Unless this is a bug in df, how is this lack of info possible given the
+> following filesystem info (e.g., no reserved blocks, and no journal)
+> about the partition?
+
+Could be a kernel issue I guess. I dunno. Perhaps Thomas will know?
+
+Col
+
+
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