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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 96 01:54:28 EST
From:      jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        keithl@gil.net
Subject:   Re: Hard drive magically doubled??
Message-ID:  <m0tomKm-003ufMC@wormhole>

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On Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:47:56 -0500 (EST) you wrote:

>Any body have any idea why when I did an 'df' I got a reading of 103000 
>blocks used and 302000 available giving me 25% (approx.)used  - This was 
>yesterday. This morning I ran pkg_manage and added latex. latter I 
>decided that it wasn't necessary and ran pkg_manage to deinstall it. When 
>I ran 'df' about an hour latter I got 205000 blocks used 609000 blocks 
>free and of course still only approx. 25% used??????

"df" will report free space in either 512 byte or 1024 byte block
sizes.  I do know that root often gets the 512 block report and users
get the 1024 block report.  "df" uses the -k line switch to force use
of the 1024 block size report.


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