Available space on partition?
by CVAlkan from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4RK7P)
Discovering that I was low on space on a partition I'm using for recordings, I went to gparted to move some things around to get some more space until a new hard drive arrives. When I did this, I discovered that gparted shows that there was almost 7x as much free space as reported by the file manager or the df command.
gparted shows:
Partition - Mount Point - Size - Used - Unused
/dev/sdc9 - /mnt/Recordings - 260.80 GiB - 245.62 GiB - 15.18 GiB
df - h shows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc9 257G 242G 2.2G 100% /mnt/Recordings
It's not a root or boot partition, and I don't see this large discrepancy on my other partitions, so I'm curious about it.
The only suspicion I have is that, since I am sharing this directory to access it from multiple devices, there is some Samba/smb overhead due to that sharing that I'm missing and don't know how to identify what that might be. Can anyone explain what I'm looking at here?
Thanks in advance.


gparted shows:
Partition - Mount Point - Size - Used - Unused
/dev/sdc9 - /mnt/Recordings - 260.80 GiB - 245.62 GiB - 15.18 GiB
df - h shows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc9 257G 242G 2.2G 100% /mnt/Recordings
It's not a root or boot partition, and I don't see this large discrepancy on my other partitions, so I'm curious about it.
The only suspicion I have is that, since I am sharing this directory to access it from multiple devices, there is some Samba/smb overhead due to that sharing that I'm missing and don't know how to identify what that might be. Can anyone explain what I'm looking at here?
Thanks in advance.