Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and df discrepancy

2003-11-10 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Just noticed by chance that rpmdrake displays a significantly different amount 
 of free diskspace from df. 
 
 / has 147 MB free (according to df) and 282 MB (according to rpmdrake). Note 
 that my only partitions are / and /home (which has a lot of free space). Any 
 ideas?

Rpmdrake talks about statfs' f_bfree, which is the real available
diskspace for installing packages, where df most probably talks
about f_bavail, which is what's important for users.

If you're using an ext2 filesystem, you may change the reserved
blocks count without loosing data, using tune2fs.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/



[Cooker] rpmdrake and df discrepancy

2003-11-09 Thread Sascha Noyes
Just noticed by chance that rpmdrake displays a significantly different amount 
of free diskspace from df. 

/ has 147 MB free (according to df) and 282 MB (according to rpmdrake). Note 
that my only partitions are / and /home (which has a lot of free space). Any 
ideas?

Best,
Sascha Noyes