From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262683AbVAVIyi (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:54:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262684AbVAVIyi (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:54:38 -0500 Received: from mailout.despammed.com ([65.112.71.29]:61666 "EHLO mailout.despammed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262683AbVAVIyh (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:54:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:37:42 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200501220837.j0M8bgk22582@mailout.despammed.com> From: ndiamond@despammed.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: negative diskspace usage X-Mailer: despammed.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Wichert Akkerman wrote: > After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md4 1019M -64Z 1.1G 101% /tmp > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md4 1043168 -73786976294838127736 1068904 101% /tmp It looks like Windows 95's FDISK command created the partitions. After that it doesn't matter which operating systems you connect the drive to when formatting the partitions and writing files and cleaning whatever you want to clean. The partition boundaries still remain where Windows 95 put them, and you have overlapping partitions. After backing up whatever files you can still access (and don't trust the contents of the files either), zero out the MBR and start over.