Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262688AbVAVKJi (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:09:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262689AbVAVKJh (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:09:37 -0500 Received: from levante.wiggy.net ([195.85.225.139]:40119 "EHLO mx1.wiggy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262688AbVAVKJg (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:09:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:09:33 +0100 From: Wichert Akkerman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: negative diskspace usage Message-ID: <20050122100933.GM7147@wiggy.net> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200501220837.j0M8bgk22582@mailout.despammed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501220837.j0M8bgk22582@mailout.despammed.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 32 Previously ndiamond@despammed.com wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/md4 1019M -64Z 1.1G 101% /tmp > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/md4 1043168 -73786976294838127736 1068904 101% /tmp > > It looks like Windows 95's FDISK > command created the partitions. There is no way you can see that from the output I gave, and it is also incorrect. > The partition boundaries still remain where Windows 95 put them, and > you have overlapping partitions. fdisk does not create overlapping partitions. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/