df misreporting used space on usb compact flash, scsi emulated

[Peter Douglas Ericson]

on debian woody, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4

hope this is useful,

pde.


argblarg:/# mount /dev/sda1 /flash/
argblarg:/# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             18753916   4289216  13512048  25% /
/dev/hdc1             39068512  29142944   9925568  75% /mnt/audio1
/dev/hdc5             39060480  34425376   4635104  89% /mnt/audio2
/dev/sda1                60717 -18446744073709548864     60334 101% /flash
argblarg:/# ls -la /flash
total 5
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         1024 Mar 28 21:29 .
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Mar 10 00:59 ..
argblarg:/# cp /home/pde/source/cat/* flash/
argblarg:/# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             18753916   4289264  13512000  25% /
/dev/hdc1             39068512  29142944   9925568  75% /mnt/audio1
/dev/hdc5             39060480  34425376   4635104  89% /mnt/audio2
/dev/sda1                60717     53508      4074  93% /flash
argblarg:/# ls -la /flash
total 56265
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         1024 Mar 28 21:32 .
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Mar 10 00:59 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     57374660 Mar 28 21:32 
10-BoardsofCanada-Aquarius.wav.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5008 Mar 28 21:32 cat.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1128 Mar 28 21:32 file.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          297 Mar 28 21:32 file.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          324 Mar 28 21:32 helper.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          123 Mar 28 21:32 helper.h
argblarg:/# df --version
df (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry McVoy, and Paul Eggert.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
argblarg:/#