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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-11-22 13:18:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-11-22 14:44:54 +0000 |
| commit | de952fa9e8846aac11316d4bd39c069b15aec4ac (patch) | |
| tree | 46d1712195b59d86058ab1037ce313ecf58c151b /examples/guestfs-testing.pod | |
| parent | 7e1b479f7e7fccc79a34caaf8349d6e941b8344e (diff) | |
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df, testing: Add notes on virt-df numbers (thanks Kashyap Chamarthy).
(cherry picked from commit 7b3137e664c3f4edf6ac7043a34c4166567e17bd)
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diff --git a/examples/guestfs-testing.pod b/examples/guestfs-testing.pod index adf5b04d..c35c3b86 100644 --- a/examples/guestfs-testing.pod +++ b/examples/guestfs-testing.pod @@ -102,7 +102,29 @@ L<virt-df(1)> lists disk space. Run: virt-df -Do the results match what's reported inside the guests? +You can try comparing this to the results from L<df(1)> inside the +guest, but there are some provisos: + +=over 4 + +=item * + +The guest must be idle. + +=item * + +The guest disks must be synched using L<sync(1)>. + +=item * + +Any action such as booting the guest will write log files causing the +numbers to change. + +=back + +We don't guarantee that the numbers will be identical even under these +circumstances. They should be similar. It would indicate a bug if +you saw greatly differing numbers. =head2 Try importing virt-df CSV output into a spreadsheet or database. |