[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Fri Feb 6 08:12:27 PST 2004
>
> Herbert Wolverson <herbert at charizard.tsghelp.com> writes:
>
> > This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the
> > server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why
> > this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry
> > about this again!
>
> "The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?"
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
>
> "How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?"
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL
These two questions are discussed so frequently on this and other lists
that you should be able to get numerous explanations with a small
search on Google and I would be surprised if there were not a FAQ on
this. So, check the web page.
Basically, du and df look a slightly different things and there is
a difference between how much root and regular users are allowed to
write to a filesystem.
////jerry
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