Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:12:20 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com (Lowell Gilbert) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness Message-ID: <200402061612.i16GCLh19151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <44k731xe4y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> from "Lowell Gilbert" at Feb 05, 2004 07:09:17 PM
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> > Herbert Wolverson <herbert@charizard.tsghelp.com> 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" >
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