Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:12:14 +0900 From: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> To: Kyryll A Mirnenko <mirya@ukrpost.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does `df` lie about free space Message-ID: <405251DE.5080108@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <200403130111.24664.mirya@ukrpost.net> References: <200403130111.24664.mirya@ukrpost.net>
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Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: > That's an old problem, but yesterday I was working with 1.4G UFS2-slice > reported by `df` to have 400kb of free space. Alternative calculations (e.g. > writing a random file until kernel says no inode's free) give a result of > more that 100M (!) unused. Thats about 7% of the whole size! > So whats wrong with `df`? Read "How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?" at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html R.
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