Hi,
Following lots of testing recently, I thought I'd share with the list an
issue with the way free disk space is evaluated by Samba.
If Samba is used to share out a directory, which has mount points below it, then
the amount of disk space reported by Samba is based on the share name rather
than the actual amount of space available.
If you look at the following examples, you will see that smbclient (and windows
clients) reports that there are 3768400 (ish) KB free in /images rather than
8547972 KB - the sum of the amounts available in the mount points.
I doubt this is a major issue for most people, however its worth checking out if
you're not getting the disk space you're expecting.
This behaviour has been observed on both Tru64 Unix 4.0F running Samba 2.2.0 and
RedHat 7.1 running Samba 2.2.1a.
Regards,
Rob Leadbeater
extract from smb.conf:
[imaging]
comment = Imaging Files
path = /images
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
valid users = root
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4134932 156484 3768400 4% /
/dev/sda5 15124868 14011080 345484 98% /images/2001/07
/dev/sdb5 15124868 14012284 344280 98% /images/2001/08
/dev/sdb1 15124900 14008556 348036 98% /images/2001/09
/dev/sdc1 15124900 6846420 7510172 48% /images/2001/10
[root@imgrep02 samba]? smbclient //imgrep02/images
INFO: Debug class all level = 2 (pid 31144 from pid 31144)
Domain=[LYNX-EXPRESS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.1a]
smb: \>
smb: \> ls
. D 0 Fri Sep 21 13:21:48 2001
.. D 0 Fri Sep 21 12:51:55 2001
2001 D 0 Fri Sep 21 13:21:49 2001
64608 blocks of size 65536. 58881 blocks available
smb: \>
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