which label to use in mount?
Sergei G
sergeig.public at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 07:46:48 UTC 2015
I think I just found the reason for different reported numbers:
df -h
/dev/gpt/dback 48G 2.6G 42G 6% /backup
vs
df -H
/dev/gpt/dback 52G 2.8G 45G 6% /backup
On 12/19/15 5:10 AM, Sergei G wrote:
> Thank you for all the comments. I have decided to go with GPT mount.
>
> I rerun size checks and was not able to reproduce the difference
> reported previously with or without df -H option. So, it appears to
> be my bad. here is a short log:
>
> % sudo mount /dev/ufs/back /backup/
> % df /backup/
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ufs/back 50778204 2403432 44312516 5% /backup
> % du /backup/
> 2403432 /backup/
>
> % sudo umount /backup/
>
> % sudo mount /dev/gpt/dback /backup
> % df /backup/
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/gpt/dback 50778204 2403432 44312516 5% /backup
> % du /backup/
> 2403432 /backup/
>
>
> On 12/15/15 7:37 PM, Sergei G wrote:
>> I have executed the following commands:
>>
>> # gpart create -s GPT ada1
>> # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l sback -s 50G ada1
>> # newfs -nL back /dev/ada1p1
>>
>> so, now I can mount it as either:
>>
>> # mount /dev/gpt/sback /mnt
>> or
>> # mount /dev/ufs/back /mnt
>>
>> Both seem to work. However, command
>>
>> df -H
>>
>> reports slightly different numbers:
>>
>> /dev/ufs/back 52G 4.1k 48G 0% /mnt
>> dev/gpt/dback 48G 4.0K 45G 0% /mnt
>>
>> Which way is the correct way to mount?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>
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