Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:43:59 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dan Polivy <danp@carebase3.jri.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: whoa...somethings wrong.. Message-ID: <11372.836019839@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 1996 23:03:07 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960628230052.23730D-100000@carebase3.jri.org>
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Dan Polivy wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.3.91.960628230052.23730D-100000@carebase3.jri.org>: > Hmm, maybe it is just me, but does this df output look odd to you? > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 352926 346960 -22270 107% / > Umm, if the space free is negative, where is all of the data going? That's normal. The free space is the space available for USERS. To make the file system work better, a certain ammount of space is reserved and not available to users, but IS available to root. Hence, if root fills the disk (as commonly happens with log files), df reports a negative free space as there is more space allocated than is available to joe user. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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