From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux; en_US, fr) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko) Description of problem: The disk usage reported by 'df' is wrong when I plug a 250GB USB Hard Disk containing one fat32 partition. # fdisk -l /dev/ubb Disk /dev/ubb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ubb1 * 1 30515 245111706 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) # grep ubb /etc/fstab /dev/ubb1 /media/LACIE vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,managed 0 0 # df -kT /media/LACIE Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ubb1 vfat 245051840 64 245051776 1% /media/LACIE # du -sk /media/LACIE 108795040 /media/LACIE The disk indeed contains ~110GB and should report ~50% use. Instead, it reports 1% use. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.2.1-31 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152519 ***