Re: df oddity (to a newbie)
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:09:55AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:57:45AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:34AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote: > > > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving > > > me weird numbers: > > > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/ad5s1d 75685352 24426308 4520421635%/usr/home > > > > > > what's with Used + Avail != 1K-blocks? > > > > FAQ: > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL > > > > Wow, 8% exactly. Though it makes me sad to see 6gigs go away. Do you know you can tweak that value? 8% is a bit much on a 75Gb filesystem. See tunefs(8), particularly the '-m' minfree option. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: df oddity (to a newbie)
ext Joshua Eckroth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving me > weird numbers: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad5s1d 75685352 24426308 4520421635%/usr/home > > what's with Used + Avail != 1K-blocks? Hi, What's weird about it? FreeBSD reserves 5% of the space for the root user on every filesystem. That's why it's not showing as available. It's a feature, not a bug :-) BR, -- mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: df oddity (to a newbie)
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:57:45AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:34AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote: > > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving > > me weird numbers: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad5s1d 75685352 24426308 4520421635%/usr/home > > > > what's with Used + Avail != 1K-blocks? > > FAQ: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Wow, 8% exactly. Though it makes me sad to see 6gigs go away. Thanks for the tip! -josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: df oddity (to a newbie)
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:34AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote: > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving me > weird numbers: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad5s1d 75685352 24426308 4520421635%/usr/home > > what's with Used + Avail != 1K-blocks? FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
