On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:07 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
compare the numbers between:
# cat /proc/partitions
and the first column of:
# df
What might have happened long long ago and far far away, is that fdisk incorrectly calculated the partition size. It has been known to do that.
On two of my systems, including a long-running and reliable FC4 system, those two command outputs disagree with each other. I haven't checked the others, but I expect a similar story.