From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 18:10:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B67916A41F for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7DE43D58 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jBMIAuG1024057; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:10:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43AAEC0F.9070309@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:10:23 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Barniskis References: <7.0.0.16.0.20051222100521.01ed28d8@smig.net> <43AAEAE4.1010408@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <43AAEAE4.1010408@scls.lib.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tim Lastine , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inconsistencies in df X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:10:58 -0000 Greg Barniskis wrote: > Tim Lastine wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are wondering why df gives such peculiar outputs on large disk >> drives? > > > If I'm not mistaken, it's because "Available" is a relative term. Some > space is reserved by the OS for itself. See part 9.25 of > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html > > I haven't done the math against your example, but I'd wager it adds up > correctly if you revise your assumptions accordingly. > Sorry, 9.25 and 9.26 both. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348