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Re: partition size incorrectly reported


On Mar  8 06:55, Eric Blake wrote:
> > f_bsize  : 4096
> > f_blocks : 256		(256 * f_bsize) == 1 Meg
> > f_bfree  : 1339399	(real free blocks of the drive)
> > f_bavail : 0		(blocks free for user under quota lore)
> > 
> > Per standard, f_bavail shows the number of free blocks available to
> > non-superuser.  However, df seems to use the f_bfree value, which is,
> > per standard, the number of total blocks free on the drive.  I'm
> > wondering if df shouldn't rather use f_bavail and f_blocks instead of
> > f_bfree and f_blocks?!?
> > 
> > What Cygwin could do is to write the FreeBytesAvailable value also into
> > f_bfree, but I'm wincing at this idea since it would (unnecessarily?)
> > reduce the information available in the structure.  I'm not actually
> > convinced this would be a good idea.
> 
> Is it worth adding additional fields to struct statvfs to avoid loss of
> information (of course, then those fields are not portable, because they
> are not standardized)?

What for?  The necessary information is available using the existing
structure members, and there are already more structure members than
information is available on Windows.  I don't think it's feasible to
add members for this purpose.

>   What does Linux do in the presence of user quotas?

I have no idea, sorry.


Corinna

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