[olug] df not reporting what I expect

[Eric Penne]

get rid of the -h and see if that says close to 120GB.  HD manufacturers
use 1 billion bytes as 1Gigabyte and df -h uses 1.04858 billion bytes (or
is it 1.024) as a GB.

> 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
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> Terence Bradshaw <tbradshaw at tconl.com>
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