Re: Bug in the DF application...

[Eric Blake]

It is odd that you mailed to bug-fileutils, even though you are using
coreutils 5.94. That mailing list is obsolete; it is now the bug-coreutils
mailing list.

> Alright, I've been using Debian for ages, and never ran across something
> like this.  It makes me wonder if it is affecting other programs on the
> system as well.  I installed GCC tonight and in the process it had to
> upgrade libc6.  It upgraded properly, and when it finished I rebooted the
> machine just to play it safe.  After it came back up I checked my free space
> and got this:
>  
> Primary:~# df -ah
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1            -405370878767k  1.0k  0.0k   9% /

There is a known bug with df reporting garbage negative sizes when
statfs reported weird information; this was detected prior to 5.94,
but the fix is only in CVS head and not backported to 5.94.
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/coreutils/src/df.c?rev=1.172&root=coreutils&view=log

As to why statfs reports weird information, I'm not sure.

-- 
Eric Blake