Re: Same partition different size were reported by hardware browser and df

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On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:16 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
> One machine I installed fc3 in a partition where 25 gb was reserved, I 
> found that;
> 
> Using hardware browser to see that partition, size 25gb was reported ( 
> This is correct size)
> 
> Using df  -h   /dev/hda10;
> 
>    Filesystem      size      used      Available      Used %      
> Mounted on
>    /dev/hda10      15g      6.9g      6.9g               51%            /
> 
> 
> Using fdisk;
>                               Start         End               Blocks   
>               Id
>    /dev/hda10           4264         7451            25607578+         
> 83      linux

It looks like you have a 15G filesystem on a 25G partition. Did you
increase the partition size at some point?

> What is wrong ? This machine after used for a week, a message telling 
> that the partition is full (15gb is used up), and I found that under 
> /mnt/ms/ folder there were still some contents supposed should have been 
> umounted, even I umount it again, the contents are still there! I think 
> it has something to do with misreported partition size as above mentioned.

I think the two are unrelated. This probably happened because you copied
some files to /mnt/ms when the filesystem you usually have mounted there
was not mounted, so those files are actually in the root partition.

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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