Same partition different size were reported by hardware browser and df

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:37 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
> 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.

Let's see if there's a filesystem/partition size mismatch; try this:

# ext2online -v /dev/hda10

If there's a mismatch, this should fix it.

The other thing you can do is:

# df -h
# umount /mnt/ms
# mv /mnt/ms /mnt/ms.old
# mkdir /mnt/ms
# mount /mnt/ms
# df -h

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>