From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: ext4 df free space reporting not reliable? Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:34:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20100613103451.GF31464@basil.fritz.box> References: <20100613093807.GA31407@basil.fritz.box> <69DFE925-D32D-4CAA-B734-545DE0515FCE@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37577 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753290Ab0FMKew (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:34:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <69DFE925-D32D-4CAA-B734-545DE0515FCE@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Are you creating the files as root? Sounds like the standard reserved > blocks behavior that's been around since ext3, ext2, BSD's ufs, etc... Yes everything is root. I would expect root df to not report the reservation. Is that not the case? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.