Re: Scary df output

From: Jeffrey L. Taylor (jeff_at_austinblues.dyndns.org)
Date: 02/02/04

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    Quoting Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>:
    > I assume comand "df" is the one to know free disk space. It gives me
    > this information:
    >
    > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    > /dev/hda1 -429168968127 1 0 49% /
    >
    > according to which I have a negative number of blocks! Also, the columns
    > seem to be disaligned because of that. Hand-correcting:
    >
    > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    > /dev/hda1 -429168968127 1 0 49% /
    >
    > How should I interpret this?
    >

    The 49% is probably correct. I encountered this several months ago.
    AFAIK, it was a mismatch of glibc and df versions. It took judicious
    application of dpkg commands to straighten it out. I.e., it was
    scary, low-level, error-prone, and I have blanked out that traumatic
    memory.

    Jeffrey 

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