[mythtv-users] Myth reports incorrect disk space usage?

[pete stagman]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:40, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> pete stagman wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:14, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:53, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On July 15, 2004 02:42 pm, Henk Poley wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Be enlightened:
> >>>>http://sysunconfig.net/aixtips/df_du_diff_out.txt
> >>>>
> >>>>du adds all filesizes together, and substracts that from the total
> >>>>diskspace. df lists the free space.
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>I know how du and df work, thanks.
> >>>
> >>>But these discepancies, especially on a small number of files, are not
> >>>going to add up to 9 GB unless the poster is using a filesystem size of
> >>>hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes, which is highly doubtful.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>A typical ext3 format (at least on Red Hat) reserves 5% of all space for the 
> >>root user. 9GB is roughly 5% of a 200GB drive. That's not hundreds and 
> >>hundreds of gigabytes.
> >>    
> >>
> >Ummmmm, sorry Jarod but 200GB IS hundreds of Gigabytes  :)
> >  
> >
> True, but assuming 200GB is the start of "hundreds" of gigabytes, 
> "hundreds and hundreds" would mean "200GB and 200GB," which means that 
> 400GB is the start of "hundreds and hundreds" of gigabytes.  Therefore, 
> 200GB is not "hundreds and hundreds" of gigabytes.
> 
> Of course, I'm not factoring in relativistic effects... ;)
> 

Yes and no,
Technically, 100.00001 GB is "Hundreds" of GB. So, "Hundreds and
Hundreds" would be 100.00001GB + 100.00001GB or 200.00002GB.

Just like 1Gb is "A Gigabyte" and 1.1Gb is "1.1 Gigabyte(s)"

But this is getting silly and I don't want to discuss it anymore :-P
(before a flame war starts over a comment that was made as a joke)


--Pete



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