disk fragmentation, <0%?

cpghost cpghost at cordula.ws
Tue Aug 16 18:30:08 GMT 2005


On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:30:41PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> From the original message:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ar0s1e    248M   -278K    228M    -0%    /tmp
> 
> This shows that /tmp is empty.  If the reserved space was being encroached 
> upon, it would show > 100% capacity, and available bytes would go negative, 
> not bytes used.
> 
> It would look something like this:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    248M    238M    -10M   105%    /
> 
> I've never seen the capacity go negative before, which is why I suggested 
> someone else might know the answer.

Ups, yes, that's really weird. It's so unusual that I didn't notice
it the first time. Could that be some counter overflowing?

> -Glenn

Regards,
-cpghost.

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