From: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: negative diskspace usage
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:41:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501222141.26449.norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050122100933.GM7147@wiggy.net>
I think the 101% usage is the interesting point here
You are using more diskspace than you have available.
I missed the first mail though, so what filesystem is this and which kernel
version?
On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:09, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously ndiamond@despammed.com wrote:
> > Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results:
> > >
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/md4 1019M -64Z 1.1G 101% /tmp
> > >
> > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/md4 1043168 -73786976294838127736 1068904 101%
> > > /tmp
> >
> > It looks like Windows 95's FDISK
> > command created the partitions.
>
> There is no way you can see that from the output I gave, and it is also
> incorrect.
>
> > The partition boundaries still remain where Windows 95 put them, and
> > you have overlapping partitions.
>
> fdisk does not create overlapping partitions.
>
> Wichert.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-22 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-22 8:37 negative diskspace usage ndiamond
2005-01-22 10:09 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-22 20:41 ` Norbert van Nobelen [this message]
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2005-05-03 11:31 Dave Gilbert (Home)
2005-01-21 14:11 Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-22 21:23 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-23 22:56 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-23 23:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-24 9:07 ` Wichert Akkerman
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