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Re: Weird df info
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> I did a small experiment to compare gzip and bzip2, and noticed a very
> strange thing with the reporting of free diskspace. "zz" is just a
> copy of the first 89 MB of /dev/zero. :-) Now look at this:
>
> alexsh:~> ls -l zz*
> -rw------- 1 alexsh alexsh 89088000 Jan 14 19:41 zz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alexsh alexsh 6793 Jan 14 19:49 zz.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alexsh alexsh 86489 Jan 14 19:42 zz.gz
~90 MB total.
> alexsh:~> df
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 3369806 1160824 2174121 35% /
> alexsh:~> df
> /dev/hda3 3369806 1073388 2261557 32% /
delta = ~90MB. what's wrong with this? Or am I missing the question here?
Shachar.