large disk space problem?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Dec 9 05:09:32 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 22:00 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> The partition is approx 160 GB, but from the output of df, the file
> system is only 9.2 GB. So the file system is only a fraction of the
> size of the partition. Unless there is a bug in df so that it is
> mis-reporting the size of the file system, then the file system does
> not fill the partition.

The original poster needs to step in here.  But I'd be guessing that
they used dd to copy something over.

On F7, at least, df certainly works correctly with drives well above
160GB.  For me, at least...

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