Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262742AbVAVVIc (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:08:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262757AbVAVU7v (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:59:51 -0500 Received: from [81.23.229.73] ([81.23.229.73]:5611 "EHLO mail.eduonline.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262733AbVAVUlg (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:41:36 -0500 From: Norbert van Nobelen Organization: EduSupport BV To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: negative diskspace usage Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:41:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200501220837.j0M8bgk22582@mailout.despammed.com> <20050122100933.GM7147@wiggy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050122100933.GM7147@wiggy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501222141.26449.norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1409 Lines: 38 I think the 101% usage is the interesting point here You are using more diskspace than you have available. I missed the first mail though, so what filesystem is this and which kernel version? On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:09, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > 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. -- EduSupport: Linux Desktop for schools and small to medium business in The Netherlands and Belgium - 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/