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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
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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