[Mageia-dev] df lying?

Tue Jan 8 15:30:52 CET 2013

On 2013-01-07 20:18 (GMT+0100) Dan Fandrich composed:
+
+> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:46:37PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
+
+>> 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?
+
+> Are you absolutely positive that this is the right filesystem you're
+> checking?
+
+I really need to stop persisting to continue ad hoc maintenance projects past 
+when I should have gone to bed. :-(
+
+The source files were coming from a Linux STB with woeful throughput to the 
+LAN. These 5200MB video files were averaging 20 minutes each to copy off. I 
+started that activity Sunday night by mounting the external destination HD to 
+a PC and checked it for available space. Then, being tired and not being sure 
+of my math in that condition, I proceeded to first copy from the STB to ample 
+internal HD freespace where I would be working on those files anyway, 
+intending to copy them after retrieval from the STB to the external HD at the 
+much much faster SATA clip. I never made the second copies, so the freespace 
+on the external HD's mount point was never touched. I never checked to see 
+where the original copies landed, and then when booting openSUSE and Fedora 
+to confirm, made the same omission, checking only the external HD mount point 
+freespace without once confirming the location of the copied files. :-p
+-- 
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+words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
+
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