Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > > a look at the typescript below: > > > > bash-2.03$ df /home > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda7 2058900 1652232 300239 85% /home > > bash-2.03$ du -s /home > > 661643 /home > > > > According to df about 1.6Gb of the /home partition are used whereas du > > -s says it about 1Gb less. Who's wrong? Or am I missing something? > > im too lazy to do the math but remember that ext2 filessytems reserve > by default 5% of the filesystem for the superuser, you can see this > descrepency in df on an empty filesystem where is says only 100K or > such is used and yet available is 5% less then 1k-blocks.
Uhm, the figures concerned are 0.6, 1, 1.6 and 2 gigabytes. I see no (sensible) way of getting 5% out of those even without doing any math. Closest I come is 20% ;-) Your 5% for the superuser is 0.1 gigabytes. It's not even close :-) Any other suggestions? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
