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Bug 368753 - Documentation doesn't describe File Systems "Free" and "Available" columns
Documentation doesn't describe File Systems "Free" and "Available" columns
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 500571
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: docs
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Shaun McCance
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-01 08:28 UTC by Mart Raudsepp
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Mart Raudsepp 2006-11-01 08:28:19 UTC 
The Usage Documentation in yelp documents Name, Directory, Type, Total and Used in section 3.12 "To Monitor Disk Space Usage", leaving 'Free' and 'Available' columns undocumented.
As these seem to mean exactly the same, this is highly confusing for an user.

After an user queried what's the difference, he got an answer from an ubuntu guy who read the source - "available is the space available for the standard user while free is total free space -- some filesystems like ext3 reserve space for the root user" (please verify - second hand knowledge).
Comment 1 Benoît Dejean 2007-12-06 21:46:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 500571 ***