why Ext3 filesystem shows used space that doesn't match with available space in DF command output?
Issue
- Ext filesystem shows used space that doesn't match available space in df command output .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv_dump 63G 58G 924M 99% /dump
- The issue is the available space is
63 GBand used is58 GBbut df shows99%filesystem is full. - If disk size is 772GB and 73MB is used then why df shows available size 733GB?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- ext3/4 filesystem
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