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

Cory Megitt mythtv at cable.megitt.com
Thu Jul 15 22:49:12 EDT 2004


I know the original poster -- 

He has a 1 Terabyte Raid External RAID solution as his /video partition.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:55 PM
To: tyrstag at earthlink.net; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth reports incorrect disk space usage?

On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:18, 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  :)

Like Michael said, yes, 200 is hundreds, or even hundred and hundred, but it
is *not* hundreds and hundreds. :-p

But I believe I now understand what Jason was trying to say (that it could
only be attributed to massive minimum block sizes on a multi-terabyte
volume). However, we now have the answer from Tim Tait.

--
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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