[SOLVED] Nautilus and df showing less free space than there should be

leonavis · 2021-06-27 18:12:28

Hi,

While testing if my automount worked I realized that Nautilus shows wrong disk-capacities.

Disk Usage Analyzer shows the expected values.

df however shows the same values I get from nautilus; meaning that an almost entirely empty disk is supposed to hold 60gigabyte of data. For the 1TB-disk it shows specifically:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use%
/dev/sda1      960302096 11026292 900421380   2%

Which is quite strange: 2% of 960GB is ~19GB, not 60. So I moved the data to a different SSD and erased the whole thing. It took long enough but did not change anything:

/dev/sda1      960302096       28 911447644   1%

Again, 9,6<49. And again, Disk Usage shows the correct value.

I would like to understand what's going on and if this is normal. I looked online but didn't find anything.

Thank you,
Leo

Last edited by leonavis (2021-06-27 18:35:47)

Slithery · 2021-06-27 18:15:13

Let me guess, you're using ext4?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#Reserved_blocks

leonavis · 2021-06-27 18:15:55

You guess right. Thanks!

Slithery · 2021-06-27 18:34:20

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[SOLVED] Nautilus and df showing less free space than there should be

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