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

[pete stagman]

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  :)

--P