[Mageia-dev] df lying?

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-01-07 13:04 (GMT-0500) Liam R E Quin composed:

> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:54 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2013-01-07 15:15 (GMT+0200) Anssi Hannula composed:

>> $ df /disks/esata
>> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb1      969063752 942471244  26592508  98% /disks/esata

>> Do total space in df & du output exclude inode blocks?

> Yes, and indirect blocks that may be needed, depending on the file
> system, and also the size of any filesystem journal. Th du command
> doesn't know about such things, and can't in general (e.g. not all file
> systems have ways to report it). The df command looks at total available
> space, which will be reduced by inode blocks; df -i gives some
> information about inode usage.

So the OP questions remain:

1-how can the free block count be identical before and after adding 
37,925,705K bytes in 7 files to that journal-free, 0 reserved for root 
filesystem?

2-how can I find out how much the free space really is, before adding enough 
files to reduce it to 0?
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