Re: bug report in df

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 02:13:03 Yochai Meir wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I think I found a bug in the df command.
> I was searching for information to manage my data and then I saw this
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5              23G   23G   71M 100% /media/DOWNLOADS
>
> the program reporting that is uses 100% of the place when in fact I have
> 0.30146059782608697% of free space.
So you have use of 99.698539402173907% - it is rounded to 100%. What's the 
problem here?

Note that most common filesystems decrease performance dramatically if use 
exceeds 99% (no matter if there is 99.6% or 99.7%).


Kamil