Why does `df` lie about free space
Kyryll A Mirnenko
mirya at ukrpost.net
Tue Mar 16 16:18:26 PST 2004
That's an old problem, but yesterday I was working with 1.4G UFS2-slice
reported by `df` to have 400kb of free space. Alternative calculations (e.g.
writing a random file until kernel says no inode's free) give a result of
more that 100M (!) unused. Thats about 7% of the whole size!
That could a harmless bug, but some applications (PostgreSQL is!) uses
statfs to get free space info. Posetgres dies saying can't write his *.pid
cause FS is full (but it has 100M inodes free)...
So whats wrong with `df` (e.g. statfs/fstatfs)?
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