df -h, du -ahx and flash size not match

Hello List

I have a linux box with debian 5, kernel 2.6.27, running over a nand flash with two partitions

cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 04000000 00020000 "Partition 1"
mtd1: 1c000000 00020000 "Partition 2"

The Partition 2 is my ROOTFS where I have ubifs. The size of this partition is 0x1c000000=469762048 bytes

My ubinfo output is this

ubinfo -a

UBI version:                    1
Count of UBI devices:           1
UBI control device major/minor: 10:63
Present UBI devices:            ubi0

ubi0:

Volumes count:                           1
Logical eraseblock size:                 129024
Total amount of logical eraseblocks:     3583 (462292992 bytes, 440.9 MiB)
Amount of available logical eraseblocks: 0 (0 bytes)
Maximum count of volumes                 128
Count of bad physical eraseblocks:       1
Count of reserved physical eraseblocks:  35
Current maximum erase counter value:     33
Minimum input/output unit size:          2048 bytes
Character device major/minor:            253:0
Present volumes:                         0

Volume ID:   0 (on ubi0)
Type:        dynamic
Alignment:   1
Size:        3544 LEBs (457261056 bytes, 436.1 MiB)
State:       OK
Name:        rootfs
Character device major/minor: 253:1

Like you can see I have 3544 LEBS to work = 457261056 bytes

Well my question is that if I run a df -h commnad I get this output df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

tmpfs                  30M     0   30M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   48K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                  30M  4.0K   30M   1% /dev/shm
rootfs                236M  161M   75M  69% /
/tmp                   30M     0   30M   0% /tmp

Why only 236M???

If I create big files and I run du -ahx command over / I get a total of 593M
of info
Why the size not match ? why I can have 593M in my ROOTFS if I only have 469762048 bytes?? Why df -h report 161M used in rootfs if du report 593M?

Could you help me to understand this?

Thank you !!!

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_df_report

I read the UBIFS FAQ and UBIFS documentation but all the explanation is about free space. I don't understand why df -h reports 236M of total space if I have 469762048 bytes in this partition.

rootfs 236M 138M 98M 59% /

cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 04000000 00020000 "Partition 1"

mtd1: 1c000000 00020000 "Partition 2"

Sorry if this is a obvious answer but I will apreciate your help to understand

I think it is also around the same set of issues. Because we do not in advance what kind of data the FS will be holding and how it is written, we do not really know how much data can fit to the FS. So UBIFS makes pessimistic calculations and reports its size as the absolutely minimum amount of space which it can fit in the worst case scenario. So in your case UBIFS decides that in the worst case it can fit a 236M file of uncompressible data (e.g., a movie).

This is kind of a compromise. Imagine UBIFS reported 500MiB free space, then you write a 300MiB AVI movie, and it does not fit. So we prefer to report the absolute minimum.

Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

You're welcome for the small pointer :)

BTW, when you are corresponding with people on mailing lists, it's good practice to Reply-All. That way, you CC the mailing list and others can see if/how you fixed your problems.

Brian

I got it!!! Thank you again