[olug] df not reporting what I expect

[Daniel Pfile]

Ok, drive manufacturers suck.

-- Daniel

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:43 PM, Eric Penne wrote:

> 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
>> --
>> Terence Bradshaw <tbradshaw at tconl.com>
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