From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Feb 28 00:01:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10271 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 00:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10236; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 00:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id CAA01130; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 02:01:43 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199802280801.CAA01130@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: bin/5870 In-Reply-To: <199802280754.XAA04233@freefall.freebsd.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Feb 27, 98 11:54:17 pm" To: jmg@FreeBSD.ORG (John-Mark Gurney) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 02:01:43 -0600 (CST) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com, jmg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Synopsis: df(1) gives values over 100% > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: jmg > State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 27 23:51:05 PST 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > this is actually normal behavior for ffs filesystems... they reserve > part of the space for optimization on storing the files... > > if you notice: > 169969 + 2582044 = 2752013 and not 2991318 as the total says... it > prevents a user from using all the disk space and then the root user > not being able to do anything about it... > Can this be documented in the man page then? :) I understand there being a percentage reserved for root, but, I guess I didn't realize that df took that out. In any case, it seems technically incorrect to have a filesystem being 108% used, agreed? :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message