Same partition different size were reported by hardware browser and df
Barry Yu
barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 4 18:37:48 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:16 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
>
>
>>One machine I installed fc3 in a partition where 25 gb was reserved, I
>>found that;
>>
>>Using hardware browser to see that partition, size 25gb was reported (
>>This is correct size)
>>
>>Using df -h /dev/hda10;
>>
>> Filesystem size used Available Used %
>>Mounted on
>> /dev/hda10 15g 6.9g 6.9g 51% /
>>
>>
>>Using fdisk;
>> Start End Blocks
>> Id
>> /dev/hda10 4264 7451 25607578+
>>83 linux
>>
>>
>
>It looks like you have a 15G filesystem on a 25G partition. Did you
>increase the partition size at some point?
>
>
>
>>What is wrong ? This machine after used for a week, a message telling
>>that the partition is full (15gb is used up), and I found that under
>>/mnt/ms/ folder there were still some contents supposed should have been
>>umounted, even I umount it again, the contents are still there! I think
>>it has something to do with misreported partition size as above mentioned.
>>
>>
>
>I think the two are unrelated. This probably happened because you copied
>some files to /mnt/ms when the filesystem you usually have mounted there
>was not mounted, so those files are actually in the root partition.
>
>Paul.
>
>
I did not increase partition size ever since I made this partition at 25
gb, and I stalled fc3 on it for 2 weeks and I found this happened.
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