[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 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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