[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Thomas Boehm]

Trey Thompson wrote:
> I've got myth installed on a compact flash card, and a 2TB SATA drive
> for media.  There's currently nothing at all on the sata drive except
> the directories.
> 
> On the system status pages (Mythweb and the Mac FrontEnd and the Ubuntu
> Frontend, it says:
> Total Space: 1,905,900 MB (Looks good)
> Space Used: 124,701 MB (um, where?!)
> 
> A df -k and a du both show about 29GB in use on my sata drive.
> 
> ??

Shot in the dark, 5% reserved space?

What does "du --max-depth 1 /mount_point" say?

You can change the amount of the reserved space with tune2fs.

HTH
Thomas