Who needs these silly statfs changes...

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>...my sparc machine reports that my i386 nfs server has 15 exabytes of
>free space!
>
>enigma# df -k
>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used             Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>rot13:/mnt2  56595176 54032286 18014398507517260     0%    /rot13/mnt2

18014398507517260 = 2^54 - 1964724.  and 2^54KB == 2^64 bytes.  Is it
possible that rot13:/mnt2 has negative free space?  (ie it's into the
8-10% reserved area).

>Kris "Now accepting payment for data hosting" Kennaway

Have you tried writing a couple of GB to the NFS filesystem?

Peter