RE: {bb} Negative disk usage and incorrect avail/capacity?

["Szabady, Paul \(NIH/NIEHS\) [C]" <szabady@niehs.nih.gov>]

Phil, et al:

The BB server is running linux and ext3 filesytem.
The windows (BB) clients are running W2k3 and running ntfs.

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Paul G. Szabady
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Research on Environment-Related Disease 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Clark [mailto:bblist@cannae.uklinux.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:24 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} Negative disk usage and incorrect avail/capacity?

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:02, Szabady, Paul (NIH/NIEHS) [C] wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm not sure when this started, but I see that locally attached large
> volumes are not reporting proper disk usage/capacity stats.  
> 
> For example, I have a 8TB+ drive shelf (drive D:) on a machine which
is
> reporting:
> Filesystem	1K-blocks	Used			Avail
> Capacity	Mounted
> D		775925760	-3412431616		4188357376
> -439%		/FIXED/D
> 
> Another machine with a 4TB+ drive shelf is reporting:
> Filesystem	1K-blocks	Used			Avail
> Capacity	Mounted
> D		387962880	-713896192		1101859072
> -184%		/FIXED/D
> 
> Server is bb19c
> Clients are both Windows 1.08d
> 
> I have a number of servers with 1TB+ and 2TB+ "drives" that seem to
> report properly.  These are SAN attached, whereas the first two
examples
> are locally attached.
> 
> Any thoughts/suggestions?

I don't know if this is a limitation of the client or of Windows
itself, but it might help others if you let us know which version
of Windows and what filesystem you're using.

Cheers, Phil.


 
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