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Old 20th October 2008
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Default The case of the missing 24GB

So if I run a df -h on my home server a particular line jumps out at me:

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# df -h
Filesystem       Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/root    496M     46M    410M    10%    /
devfs            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ufs/tmp     496M     76K    456M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ufs/usr     285G    235G     26G    90%    /usr
/dev/ufs/var     1.7G    112M    1.4G     7%    /var
Er, last I checked taking 235 from 285 leaves you with 50 - not 26. I know some rounding goes on here, but 24GB appears to be "missing"! It looks like in the cases of almost all the lines there is some hard disk space that is not accounted for, but in the case of /usr it's certainly the most noticeable.

/usr is mounted on the same logical drive that everything else is - which is a RAID-5 drive provided by three 160GB drives on a Highpoint controller.

Any ideas? Is there something I just don't get here? Are the measurements showing me two different things based on a cluster size (similar to the size vs. size on disk in Windows)?

Thanks.
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Old 20th October 2008
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Looks like somebody forgot to read man pages..

Quote:
Originally Posted by newfs(8)
-m free-space
The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is defined by MINFREE from <ufs/ffs/fs.h>, currently 8%. See tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option.
In this case; 285 * 8 is 2280... add a decimal point, 22.8G.. or something.. math isn't my expertise, but it clearly accounts for some of the missing space you're noticing.

Also, a portion is used for file system metadata.. i.e: inode structures.
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By the way, you can change that with tunefs if you want. The space isn't gone, though, it's just reserved to root use only. If root uses it, you'll actually see the available space go into the negatives.
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Ah, curses! I did read man pages, I swear! Just not the right one. I will now, though!

Anyway, thanks very much. I can sleep easy now.
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