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Andre' McL:ean
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‎11-03-2003 08:35 AM

‎11-03-2003 08:35 AM

Filesystem monitoring

I have a script with uses df -nv to report the percentage of used blocks for each filesystem. The problem is that the output reported via bdf does not support same percentage as reported by df -nv. Why is there such a diffence here and how can I correct this for a more accurate report.
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James A. Donovan
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‎11-03-2003 11:11 AM

‎11-03-2003 11:11 AM

Re: Filesystem monitoring

The difference is that bdf is reporting %free space. Freespace = (block-size * KB/block)

Therefore it's possible that bdf and df -nv will report slightly different numbers.
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Mark Grant
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‎11-03-2003 05:48 PM

‎11-03-2003 05:48 PM

Re: Filesystem monitoring

Generally the way to correct this is to do "df -k" on Linux and "bdf -l" on HPUX. That way they both look the same.
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