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On Fri, 2007-26-01 at 15:39 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:45:48PM +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Being who I am, I also run df and get this:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> /dev/sda1 79G 38G 38G 50% /media/Repository80GB</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Now I cannot for the life of me make the numbers add up.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">That's because by default 5% of disk space in ext3 partitions is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reserved and not included in the Avail column. 79G * 5% ~= 4G. 38G +</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">38G + 4G = 80G. The 1G difference is just rounding error, run df without</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-h to see the exact block counts.</FONT>
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OK, that makes sense. It's not exactly the best-documented "makes sense" thing I've ever seen, but it makes sense. Thanks (everybody) for the help.<BR>
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