On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:29:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've noticed a discrepancy in percent free between findmnt and df: > > $ df -h|grep /tmp > /dev/sdb5 9.8G 8.3G 967M 90% /tmp > $ findmnt --df|grep /tmp > /dev/sdb5 ext4 9.7G 8.3G 967M 85% /tmp > > Actually, the discrepancy seems to be df as 8.3/9.8 is 84.7%. > Can anyone here explain the difference? Should it be submitted to > coreutils as a bug? It's the reserved space on the filesystem. On an ext4 FS where the reserved space is 0%, df and findmnt (mostly) agree: $ df -h | grep Gluttony /dev/sdb2 1.8T 701G 1.1T 39% /mnt/Gluttony $ findmnt --df | grep Gluttony /dev/sdb2 ext4 1.8T 700.1G 1.1T 39% /mnt/Gluttony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
