[olug] df not reporting what I expect

[Daniel Pfile]

Hmm ok, maybe I'm wrong about how either df reports the size, or how 
manufacturers report their drive sizes.

-- Daniel

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Terence Bradshaw wrote:

> Found my own answer looking around...
>
> [terry at AngryPuppy terry]$ df -H
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             120GB   22GB   92GB  19% /
> /dev/hda1             103MB   49MB   49MB  50% /boot
> none                  131MB      0  130MB   0% /dev/shm
>
> Has to do with units of 1024 vs 1000.
>
> Sorry about the newb question.
>
> Terry
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:21, Terence Bradshaw wrote:
>> When I issue the command df -h, I get the following:
>>
>> [terry at AngryPuppy terry]$ df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda2             112G   21G   86G  19% /
>> /dev/hda1              99M   47M   47M  50% /boot
>> none                  125M     0  124M   0% /dev/shm
>>
>> This hard draive is a 120GB drive, but it only seems to be seeing 
>> around
>> 112GB.
>>
>> Is this just what it is reporting, or is the partition set up wrong,
>> perhaps?  8GB is a big chunk to not have available.
>>
>> Terry
> -- 
> Terence Bradshaw <tbradshaw at tconl.com>
>
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