From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 20 8:14: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f240.law14.hotmail.com [64.4.21.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDB637B401 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 08:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 08:14:03 -0700 Received: from 213.190.63.122 by lw14fd.law14.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:14:03 GMT X-Originating-IP: [213.190.63.122] From: "Edward Gess" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mysterious output of "df" utility... Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:14:03 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2001 15:14:03.0470 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA7E26E0:01C15979] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, When I am using "df" utility to find out my disk usage info., I am getting stange output, i.e. the size is much smaller that should be! For example: during FreeBSD installation I gave for my root ("/") slice 50MB after installation with "df" utility I am getting that my root slice is < 50MB!!! Why??? More to that, when comparing "Used" and "Avail" fields, there much confusing thing! Logically the sum of "Used" and "Avail" must be equal to size of the slice, but it is much smaller than 50MB!!! If I would set "S" as a "Size" field of "df -h" output, "U" - "Used" and "A" - "Avail", so "S" is < than size of slice I've chosen during install. and "U" + "A" is < that "S", so I am loosing my free space!!! Please explain me this mysterious understanding of my space by "df" utility... Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message