From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 3: 2:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D2E37B42C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 03:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13SceS-000Ncu-00; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:53:24 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA54757; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:53:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:53:24 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'df' shows 'avail' is < zero ! Message-ID: <20000826105324.B46871@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200008260548.e7Q5mhL07871@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008260548.e7Q5mhL07871@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > Hi - When I do a 'df' I can see that I have a negative 'avail' value. I'm > rather surprised this is possible ! It's on the file system which is > dedicated to the '/' mount point. > > My primary question is will the machine reboot in this state ? I > don't want to find out by trying ! This is fine. A small percentage of space on all filesystems is reserved for root, a negative avail just shows that you've started using that space. If you look at any other filesystem you'll see the counts don't add up, this is the same reason. ben@magnesium:~$ df /usr Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1e 3664014 3266055 104838 97% /usr ben@magnesium:~$ expr 3266055 + 104838 3370893 -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message