Re: : Problem with displayed hard drive space


Subject: Re: : Problem with displayed hard drive space
From: Magnus Stenman (stone@hkust.se)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 10:24:17 EDT


Problem is, it is showing free space of the filesystem where
the share is located, not on any filesystems mounted under it.

I'm not sure there is a fix, it's logically hard to get the
numbers right.

/m

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:44:45PM -0700, Mike Johnson wrote:
> The macs are running 8.6 and 9. I have noticed that the macs are showing the
> correct amount of space available, which was at one point up to 8 gigs, but
> that was on the linux server and not the nfs mounts.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Freitas [mailto:sflist@ihonk.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:59 AM
> To: Mike Johnson; Netatalk
> Subject: Re: Problem with displayed hard drive space
>
> > When a
> >mac logs in, they see only the miserable little amount of free space left
> on
> >linux, not the wide-open space available on the mounted directories.
>
> What MacOS version(s) are the clients running? Older versions of the OS
> (someone else will have to join in with specific version numbers)
> couldn't see past some ludicrously low number of gigs, I think 2 gigs,
> and that would foul up the free space display.
>
> Steve

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