[comp.unix.questions] Contradictions between mkfs and df

andrew@nsc.nsc.com (Andrew Lue) (07/24/87)

  I hope someone out there can solve this problem.  I have a UNIX-based
development system that includes a 40 Mb hard disk.  I created three
partitions.  Using mkfs, I assigned 29088 blocks (each 512 bytes) to
/dev/dsk/0s0 and 22032 blocks to /dev/dsk/0s2. The second partition was
the swap area. (Obviously, before I did the mkfs I mkpt'ed.)

  When I df -t'ed to confirm the number of total blocks per partition,
I got unexpected results:

  -- /dev/dsk/0s2 had 21896 blocks (4236 blocks free)

  -- /dev/dsk/0s0 had 9928 blocks (1672 blocks free)

  The discrepancy for 0s0 is unbelievable. Can anyone explain?

  Please respond to ucbvax!sun!nsc!andrew.

  Thanks.

  andrew lue

  PS: This is a System V.2 setup.