From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 29 00:44:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14815 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 00:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA14806 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 00:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA20674; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:01:22 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606290731.RAA20674@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: whoa...somethings wrong.. To: danp@carebase3.jri.org (Dan Polivy) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:01:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dan Polivy" at Jun 28, 96 11:03:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan Polivy stands accused of saying: > > 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% / > /dev/sd0s1f 1206856 604326 505980 54% /usr > /dev/sd0s1e 302222 55362 222682 20% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Umm, if the space free is negative, where is all of the data going? is > it stored in memory or swap space until room is freed for it to go where > it is supposed to? Hmmm... Hmm, given your filesystem layout, I'd have to assume that you're not much of an admin, or you have a really specialised application for the system. Non-root users can't write to a filesystem that's more than 90% full. For sanity's sake, df calls that 100%. So when root comes very close to filling a filesystem, 'df' will report negative free space. > Dan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[