Same partition different size were reported by hardware browser and df

[Barry Yu]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:16 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
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>>One machine I installed fc3 in a partition where 25 gb was reserved, I 
>>found that;
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>>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%            /
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>>Using fdisk;
>>                              Start         End               Blocks   
>>              Id
>>   /dev/hda10           4264         7451            25607578+         
>>83      linux
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>It looks like you have a 15G filesystem on a 25G partition. Did you
>increase the partition size at some point?
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>>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.
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>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.
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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.