From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 28 20:44:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00631 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00622 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id EAA11374; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:44:01 +0100 (BST) To: Dan Polivy cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: whoa...somethings wrong.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 1996 23:03:07 EDT." Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:43:59 +0100 Message-ID: <11372.836019839@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan Polivy wrote in message ID : > 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