Message-ID: <3AD49D7C.E6FE1A1F@lps.u-psud.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:07:56 -0700 From: Daniel Taupin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii , djjgpp list Subject: Strange df results Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com With a computer with more that 30 Gbytes if performed successively "df"and "dir". The results are quite different: Filesystem MB-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on Drive C: 2047 0 2047 0% c:/ Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 303A-13F1 Directory of C:\daniel . 06/04/01 11:15 . .. 06/04/01 11:15 .. DISTRIBS 06/04/01 11:15 distribs LOCATE ERR 0 10/04/01 18:01 locate.err PROGRAMS 06/04/01 12:22 programs FFM 06/04/01 14:46 ffm TAUPIN TXT 247 06/04/01 14:42 taupin.txt DOC2 DOC 27 648 07/04/01 15:58 Doc2.doc LOCATEDB ZIP 219 172 10/04/01 9:12 locatedb.ZIP DF DAT 129 11/04/01 11:01 df.dat LOCATE LOG 0 10/04/01 18:01 locate.log TEST TEX 35 07/04/01 17:48 test.tex BOCAL_~1 BAT 580 07/04/01 18:00 bocal_autoexec.bat TOPOBLO 09/04/01 8:36 topoblo UPDATEDB TMP 3 482 699 10/04/01 18:33 updatedb.tmp LOCATEDB TMP 3 482 699 10/04/01 18:33 locatedb.tmp 10 file(s) 7 213 209 bytes 6 dir(s) 33 004.72 MB free It appears that df does not display what is actually used, and the number of megabytes is truncated to a power of 2, minus one. Note that my installation has been taken from simtel.net 3 days ago... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Taupin, 841 Seale, Palo Alto, Calif. 94301, USA 001.650.3257703 (jusqu'au 22 avril 2001) ------------------------------------------------------------------------