Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal I am seeing incorrect %use when displaying data from a 500GB USB external drive -- Example output: /dev/sde1 480040596 310726424 144929512 69% /media/wdp7 Precise calc. (on HP11C) is Use% = 68.193% which should not round upward
I am doing a long rm -rf to clean out approx. 200GB of old files. While this is going on in a background job, I run # while sleep 5; do echo $(date) $(df .)|cut -d ' ' -f 1,10-; done in the foreground. When Use% dropped to 67. 998%, the df display changed to 68%. This, I think, demonstartes that the problem is in the actual calc., not in the use of human friendly number display. HTH PS, I have several 500GB USB drives and often defer deleting old files until a time when the delete does not compete for cycles with useful work. Its OK to ask for test runs of new code. Wish list item: Enable correct computation of Use% that is over 100% (because of the 5% safety buffer that is built in somewhere) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
