df does not show free space

[Rashkae]

Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's up with the 'df' command in 8.04? It no longer displays the free
> space of the OS partitions. For example:
> 
> $ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> varrun                886M  128K  886M   1% /var/run
> varlock               886M     0  886M   0% /var/lock
> udev                  886M   68K  886M   1% /dev
> devshm                886M     0  886M   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                   886M   39M  848M   5%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda9             119G  590M  113G   1% /home/colin/shared
> 
> There is a bug report in launchpad, from more than a year ago (!), which
> appears to document this, indicating that it is a problem with partitions
> mounted using UUIDs. This does indeed still appear to be the case, since in
> the example above, /dev/sda9 is mounted using LABEL and disk space for this
> particular partition is indeed displayed correctly.
> 
> Thanks (and sorry for the empty message a minute ago; pilot error).
> 


Umm, you only have one filesystem there, /dev/sda9

The others are all 'virtual' filesystems. So I'm really not
understanding what your problem is.