From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 08:12:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2429C16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AF443D58 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i16GCLh19151; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:12:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200402061612.i16GCLh19151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com (Lowell Gilbert) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:12:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <44k731xe4y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> from "Lowell Gilbert" at Feb 05, 2004 07:09:17 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Herbert Wolverson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:12:27 -0000 > > Herbert Wolverson writes: > > > This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the > > server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why > > this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry > > about this again! > > "The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF > > "How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL These two questions are discussed so frequently on this and other lists that you should be able to get numerous explanations with a small search on Google and I would be surprised if there were not a FAQ on this. So, check the web page. Basically, du and df look a slightly different things and there is a difference between how much root and regular users are allowed to write to a filesystem. ////jerry > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >