[olug] df not reporting what I expect

[Eric Penne]

It's all driven by marketing.  Using the capital H with df uses the
manufacturers definition.  I think at one time I heard of megabyte being
what we would normally use and mebibyte being the marketing value.  I kind
of took it like, "If you don't know the difference the it maybe a
megabyte" therefore they call them mebibytes.

Eric


> 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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