X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:01:47 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: partition size incorrectly reported Message-ID: <20060308140147.GU3184@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1ACB95D81B24969895E72CC1@red-2> <20060308125503.GR3184@calimero.vinschen.de> <440ED903.7000605@byu.net> <20060308132346.GS3184@calimero.vinschen.de> <20060308133729.GT3184@calimero.vinschen.de> <440EE246.3030909@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <440EE246.3030909@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 8 06:55, Eric Blake wrote: > > f_bsize : 4096 > > f_blocks : 256 (256 * f_bsize) == 1 Meg > > f_bfree : 1339399 (real free blocks of the drive) > > f_bavail : 0 (blocks free for user under quota lore) > > > > Per standard, f_bavail shows the number of free blocks available to > > non-superuser. However, df seems to use the f_bfree value, which is, > > per standard, the number of total blocks free on the drive. I'm > > wondering if df shouldn't rather use f_bavail and f_blocks instead of > > f_bfree and f_blocks?!? > > > > What Cygwin could do is to write the FreeBytesAvailable value also into > > f_bfree, but I'm wincing at this idea since it would (unnecessarily?) > > reduce the information available in the structure. I'm not actually > > convinced this would be a good idea. > > Is it worth adding additional fields to struct statvfs to avoid loss of > information (of course, then those fields are not portable, because they > are not standardized)? What for? The necessary information is available using the existing structure members, and there are already more structure members than information is available on Windows. I don't think it's feasible to add members for this purpose. > What does Linux do in the presence of user quotas? I have no idea, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/