Re: df - reported 8TB available, should've been less than 100GB

[Bob Proulx]

Al Fairfield wrote:
> I couldn't find my (unique?) problem anywhere, so here's what I've
> got. After I finished capturing DV files from my camcorder (about 35
> GiB worth), Dolphin reported that I had 8TiB available, but my hard
> drive is only 180GiB! So I ran df, and that showed 8TB, or maybe I
> saw -8TB? Can't remember, the problem was fixed when I deleted all
> those DV files. I'm running openSuse 11.3 32-bit, if that helps any.

Since it isn't reproducible for you right now there isn't much to go
upon.  But if it happens again please run strace on df and capture the
full output.

  $ strace -o df.strace.out -v df

That will show the statfs calls made by df and the result returned by
the kernel for them.  That information will show what is actually
happening.  Example:

  statfs("/home", {f_type="EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=52189320, 
f_bfree=11286520, f_bavail=8636972, f_files=13262848, f_ffree=10743937, 
f_fsid={-118515142, -1991503699}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0

  Filesystem           Size      Used       Avail     Use% Mounted on
  /dev/mapper/v1-home  208757280 163611264  34547824  83% /home
  /dev/mapper/v1-home  200G      157G       33G       83% /home

Send that information in and then we can see what is happening.

Bob