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Re: Free space inconsistency with df / du
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Jonathan Schleifer
<js-netbsd-users%webkeks.org@localhost> wrote:
> Could anybody explain that to me? Does it mean I have file system
> errors and that the number of free blocks is wrong or something like
> this? Should I shut down that machine and do fsck? I want to avoid
> shutting it down if possible because it's a server (same for
> remounting / ro and doing fsck).
Could be something wrong.
But it could also be this strangeness that df has where it can show a
negative value, and that's OK. I've never done any research on this,
or read the code for it, but I've heard anecdotally that this happens
to give you a little bit of a safety net when it looks like your disk
is filling up.
It would be nice if someone knowledgeable could explain this.
Andy
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