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Date:      Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:57:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: df inconsistency
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990903145051.75185B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909031914.PAA21107@laker.net>

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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Steve Friedrich wrote:

> df output on my system:
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd1s1e   1113967   929244    95606    91%    /usr
> 
> Problem is that (total blocks) - (used blocks) does not equal
> (available blocks)
> 1113967 - 929244 = 184723 = 83%
> 
> 95606/1113967 = 9% (so the inverse is 91%)
> 
> So it appears that 89117 are "unavailable" but not counted as "used".

Yup.  It is the space that FFS reserves for its own use.  See the newfs(8)
and tunefs(8) man pages.  It is a tunable, which should be left alone unless
you know what you are doing.  FFS reserves the space so that it can do
effective fragmentation avoidance.  If you want to know more, see
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=486037+0+current/freebsd-hackers


David 



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