14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
08:11
On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:04 , Otto Rodusek wrote:
Let's look at /dev/sda4 ( if I take 933,396,565 - 795,692,408 I get and expect to get 137,704,248 and not the reported 90,290,440 a difference of 47GB!!!!). If that is the case with df, how does one get a "reasonable" size of used and available space?? This is rather confusing as the numbers are so far apart!!
The space reported as "available" applies to non-privileged users. Space that is reserved for privileged users is contained in the "Size" column only, not in "Used" or "Avail". For ext2, the default for this quantity is 5%, so 47G seems reasonable. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105