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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Discrepancy in filesystem size? Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 23:15:18 GMT Message-ID: <Bwp9xJ.93z@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <gP64sB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> Lines: 14 In <gP64sB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> bbs.barfeau@tsoft.sf-bay.org (David Fox) writes: >[creates 16M file] >However, df -k reports somewhat less than 10 megabytes free. Before or after file creation? If before, are you logged in as root? In that case you have acces to the file system's freespace reserve which is normally 10% of the file system's capacity on BSD file systems. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem. IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92