Re: Remaining diskspace confusion - "df" contradicts other info.

From: Dave Smithz (SPAM)
Date: 01/25/05

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    "Barry Margolin" <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:barmar-
    > You certainly do seem to be reading something wrong. Don't you see
    > 948,300KB in the Available column?
    >
    > > But discovering df -h led me to the real sizes. So there is actually
    926MB
    > > remaining and 13G used. However, does this not still seem a little low.
    If
    >
    > How is that significantly different from what you showed above?

    I thought the original amount was shown in bytes, not KB. That was the
    source of the problem.

    Thanks for your helpful response. Interesting what you say about how they
    oversell the space. Makes sense I suppose.

    Still 94% is still a bit high I would have thought. But maybe the migration
    will sort that out.

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