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Re: 1.7.7: upper limit to df reported available size?
On Dec 10 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 10 11:20, Elford,Andrew [Ontario] wrote:
> > $ df -T /cygdrive/f/file
> > Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > C: ntfs 83886076 31717608 52168468 38% /cygdrive/c
> > F: ntfs 11717703676 72036296 -5534201804 - /cygdrive/f
> > L: ntfs 6143999996 883063196 5260936800 15% /cygdrive/l
> [...]
> Hmm. OTOH, seeing the size of your FS, I'm also wondering if we should
> make the algorithm a bit more foolproof for the future by manipulating
> the value of f_frsize if the TotalAllocationUnits returned by Windows
> is > sizeof (fsblkcnt_t).
No, scratch that. It wouldn't work well. I guess what we really need
is to redefine fsblkcnt_t to become a 64 bit type. Oh well, this
requires another backward compatibility hack, just like back when we
switched to 64 bit off_t (Cygwin 1.5).
Corinna
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