From: Chamith Kumarage <gnu.chami@gmx.net>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: xtekhne@gmail.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: updating informations of file systems
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:23:40 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234353220.19468.9.camel@CHAMITH> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18833.17112.915720.862631@cerise.gclements.plus.com>
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:03 +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Pol wrote:
>
> > > Apart from anything else, "du" won't report the space used by files
> > > which have been deleted (unlinked) but still exist because a process
> > > is using them.
> >
> > Sorry, i meant 'df'.
> > Is it possible 'df' does not report the current amount of space used by
> > partitions?
General "df" output will describe the following fields..
Filesystem |1K-blocks | Used | Available | Use% | Mounted on
As Glynn explained, there are issues in "df" with networked filesystems
like NFS. There it will print blanks for attributes that the server
doesn't support.
~Chamith
>
> No. Any allocation or deallocation of blocks will be immediately
> reflected in the output from "df" (for local filesystems, at least;
> there may be issues with networked filesystems).
>
--
*** Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 8:55 updating informations of file systems Pol
2009-02-09 10:21 ` Glynn Clements
2009-02-09 14:43 ` Pol
2009-02-10 9:03 ` Glynn Clements
2009-02-11 11:53 ` Chamith Kumarage [this message]
2009-02-11 23:03 ` Pol
2009-02-12 6:48 ` Glynn Clements
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