disk fragmentation, <0%?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Aug 15 20:39:26 GMT 2005


On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:20:12AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the good answers.
> > 
> > But can anyone tell me why the capacity is going negative? and not full?
> > 
> > > Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/ar0s1e    248M   -278K    228M    -0%    /tmp
> 
> As someone mentioned, there is a FAQ on this.   You should read it.
> 

In fact, you're both wrong, because that's clearly not what's going on
here (capacity <0, not capacity >100!)

The only thing I can think of is that you have some filesystem
corruption on this partition that is confusing the stats.  Try
dropping to single-user mode and running fsck -f /tmp.

Kris
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