Re: NTFS / df size bug

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 08:57 09/04/01, Sven Heithecker wrote:
> when I do a "df" I get the following output:
> Filesystem          1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc6            231791360 204933656  26857704  89% /mnt/ntmain <---
>
> The last line (hdc), a ntfs partition, is defenitely wrong. Size should be
> about 28G (...not that I would like to have a 231G-drive :-) ). I dont know
> wether this is a df or a ntfs bug.

Ntfs bug. Fixed in -ac series of kernels (since 2.4.0or1-ac-something, 
can't remember). If you use any 2.4.2-ac kernel or later it will work fine.

> ver_linux output:
> Linux merlin 2.4.0 #5 Mon Mär 12 11:51:03 MET 2001 i686 unknown

I am still waiting for the fixes in the -ac series to propagate to the 
Linus kernel series...

Thanks for the report though.

Best regards,

        Anton


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