tags 11597 notabug On 05/31/2012 11:26 PM, system wrote: > Hello everybody, > > first of all let me say a big thank you -and all the others- for > spending time and life donation to the GPL, FSF, .... world of Linux. > > > I am not an developer but mathematics is one of my favs so how can the > following explained? > > Command issued > df -h > > response > ----paste start ----- > Dateisystem Größe Benut Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf > /dev/sda1 36G 25G 9,1G 73% / > .... > ----paste end ----- > > Circumstances and conditions: > Ubuntu 10.04 lts server > SDA is a physical SATA connected drive > Installation language de > Execution is done via ssh due to headless server system > > If size (Größe) is 36GB and occupied space (Benut) is 25GB -guess- > remaining space (Verf) is below 10GB there must be a bug in calculation > or in the way the first two values were derived from the system. > If there would be a diff of +-1 digit nobody would think about but in > this case there is a mismatch in the msd (most signifikant digit) > > I would really appreciate feedback that the mail is recieved and if > there will be actions taken upon.
There can be less available space due to reservations for example. I think the specific issue here is that 5% of the / file system is reserved for the root user and thus is not included in the generally available count returned by the file system. cheers, Pádraig.