[Linux-cluster] 'df' not accurate?

Brynnen R Owen owen at isrl.uiuc.edu
Thu Nov 18 22:02:49 UTC 2004


No change.  All nodes in the cluster appear to agree on the wrong size
as well.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:51:58PM -0600, Ken Preslan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:31:46PM -0600, Brynnen R Owen wrote:
> >   I have a cluster with 5 computers on board.  I have a GFS partition
> > that's about 1T.  When I run 'df', it shows that I've used 81G.  When
> > I run a 'du -s' on a subtree of the filesystem, I get ~250G.  I would
> > expect that the total in-use storage size would be about 300G.  The
> > quotas seem to add up to about 300G as well.  I manually created a 1M
> > file, and the usage went up by 1028 blocks.
> > 
> >   I'm using lock_dlm, RedHat 9, 2.6.9 kernel, all patches from CVS on
> > Nov 11.  Anyone else seen anything like this?  I don't have a few
> > days/weeks to fsck the system.
> 
> If you do a "gfs_tool shrink /mountpoint" and then rerun df, does the
> value change?
> 
> -- 
> Ken Preslan <kpreslan at redhat.com>
> 

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