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Re: partition size incorrectly reported
On Mar 8 06:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/8/2006 5:55 AM:
> > Cygwin can nothing do about that. Maybe df can by taking quotas into
> > account. Eric?
>
> Not really. SUSv3/POSIX specify df without allowing it to take quotas
> into account - so it is really space available on the file system, not
> space available to the current user within the file system. However, you
> may want to propose a GNU extension that adds a new option to df which
> takes quotas into account; if so, raise the question on the
> bug-coreutils<AT>gnu<DOT>org mailing list. But remember that reading disk
> quotas isn't very portable, so it may be a difficult task to actually
> provide a worthwhile patch along those lines.
Maybe Cygwin can do something about that by never returning more
available than total blocks. Would that be helpful/desirable/correct,
or sahould we just keep it as it is now?
Corinna
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