From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: df -h shows ~10 times bigger size when umounting pendrive
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:17:01 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C5DEE5.6090205@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903220150.16004.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> While umount was running and data were synced on the
> pendrive df -h showed:
>
> [arekm@t400 ~]$ df -h
> System plik�w rozm. u�yte dost. %u�. zamont. na
> /dev/sda3 9,6G 4,2G 5,5G 44% /
> /dev/sdb1 9,6G 4,2G 5,5G 44% /media/floppy
>
This looks to me like a race between umount and df. By the time df had
read mtab (to find the mounted filesystem), the pen drive had already
been unmounted; but umount hadn't yet updated mtab. It's a pretty
trivial sort of fault, and not worth worrying about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-22 0:50 df -h shows ~10 times bigger size when umounting pendrive Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2009-03-22 6:47 ` David Newall [this message]
2009-03-22 10:25 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2009-03-22 14:52 ` David Newall
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