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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 13:21:17 +0000 |
commit | 7b3137e664c3f4edf6ac7043a34c4166567e17bd (patch) | |
tree | a4f447b00286f61401bb197422ac95e566b1a8b1 /examples | |
parent | ce6c4eeabe3f2ce96d11d6d55c3ac6aca542d4c8 (diff) | |
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df, testing: Add notes on virt-df numbers (thanks Kashyap Chamarthy).
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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. |