[Mageia-dev] df lying?

Mon Jan 7 19:46:37 CET 2013

On 2013-01-07 13:04 (GMT-0500) Liam R E Quin composed:
+
+> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:54 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
+
+>> On 2013-01-07 15:15 (GMT+0200) Anssi Hannula composed:
+
+>> $ df /disks/esata
+>> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
+>> /dev/sdb1      969063752 942471244  26592508  98% /disks/esata
+
+>> Do total space in df & du output exclude inode blocks?
+
+> Yes, and indirect blocks that may be needed, depending on the file
+> system, and also the size of any filesystem journal. Th du command
+> doesn't know about such things, and can't in general (e.g. not all file
+> systems have ways to report it). The df command looks at total available
+> space, which will be reduced by inode blocks; df -i gives some
+> information about inode usage.
+
+So the OP questions remain:
+
+1-how can the free block count be identical before and after adding 
+37,925,705K bytes in 7 files to that journal-free, 0 reserved for root 
+filesystem?
+
+2-how can I find out how much the free space really is, before adding enough 
+files to reduce it to 0?
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