Subject: Re: [vserver] incorrect filesystem usage in guest...
From: Chuck <chuck@sbbsnet.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:14:18 -0400

On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
> I have found my vserver-guest does not report filesystem
> usage correctly:
> 

are all your guests sharing the same partition? if so df will report gross totals across

the partition. 

the only way to get accurate individual data is by doing what i do.. use lvm2 and assign
a 
partition to each guest. within that setup, df is completely accurate for that individual

guest.



> # pwd
> /root
> # du -s -k
> 3444152 .
> # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> rootfs                20971520   2578996  17327564  13% /
> /dev/root             20971520   2578996  17327564  13% /
> 
> You see? In just one directory /root there is ~3.4GB of data,
> yet filesystem usage for this partition says only ~2.6GB is used.
> How is this possible???
> 
> Jarry
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Chuck