[mythtv-users] Myth reports incorrect disk space usage?

[Tim Tait]

Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:53, Jason Keirstead wrote:
>  
>
>>On July 15, 2004 02:42 pm, Henk Poley wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Be enlightened:
>>>http://sysunconfig.net/aixtips/df_du_diff_out.txt
>>>
>>>du adds all filesizes together, and substracts that from the total
>>>diskspace. df lists the free space.
>>>      
>>>
>>I know how du and df work, thanks.
>>
>>But these discepancies, especially on a small number of files, are not
>>going to add up to 9 GB unless the poster is using a filesystem size of
>>hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes, which is highly doubtful.
>>    
>>
>
>A typical ext3 format (at least on Red Hat) reserves 5% of all space for the 
>root user. 9GB is roughly 5% of a 200GB drive. That's not hundreds and 
>hundreds of gigabytes.
>

Wow, I didn't expect this question to draw much attention! The drive is 
large, so maybe the reserved root space is the reason.

Here is some more info on the system:

Files system is ext3 under 2.24.26.

Per df:
   Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available
   /dev/vgusb2/video    180621680   6635676 164810964

The df used result equates to about 6,480 MB.

 From Mythweb status page:
  Total Space: 167,428 MB
  Space Used: 15,440 MB
  Space Free: 151,988 MB