Hi,
(removed linux-smp as irrelevant)
sorry, I haven't read your message but 99.99% of claims that "df
doesn't work" originate from people who don't suspect about old good
minroot thing, i.e. check out -m option of mke2fs(8) command.
Regards,
Tigran
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Joe wrote:
> FYI: I am sending this to both SMP and kernel as I have an SMP
> machine. I don't know if there is a list for the ext2 filesystem
> as I suspect that is where the problem is/was.
>
> Machine 'Dual' 233MMX with 128 Meg of RAM. Kernel 2.2.14, WD
> 6Gig drive as hdb, Seagate 2.1 as hda. Linux is on hdb.
>
> Last night I did an rm -f on 4 files. The files sizes were 35M,
> 390M, 250M, and 150M. After doing this I did a df -k. df -k
> showed me having used 68 percent of my hard drive. So I then
> did a du -s /* to see why. A few days earlier I had only used
> 32% and had not installed ANYTHING.
> du -s showed a file that was 2.6 Gig. It was .xsession-errors.
> I then did an rm -f on this file.
>
> I again did a df -k and it still showed 68 percent of my disk
> being used. So I repeated the du -s /*. This time du -s and df
> -k did not add up. When I added up the output from du -s I had
> about 35 % of my disk used.
>
> I rebooted the system, (windows thinking that this would help.)
> It did not. du -s and df -k still showed different amounts of
> disk spaced being used. I then did a full shutdown and waited a
> few minutes then restarted. For some reason this time it told
> me my disk was corrupt, and it ran fsck. After this completed
> and I logged in, I did a df -k and it now showed 35% being used.
>
> I thought that you all should know that this happened and do not
> know if it had something to do with smp or what part of the
> kernel as I am NOT a kernel programmer.
>
> My only guess is that the pointers to these files got removed
> but the kernel /fs never removed some internel pointer or some
> reference to this data somewhere???
>
> thanks Joe
>
>
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