df does not show free space

[Rashkae]

Rashkae wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sigh, NM, I see it now, no root.