# Why does df report 3G used on empty LV mount (XFS)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [November 15, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858 "2023-11-15T04:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lerroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@lerroot](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lerroot)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/1 "2023-11-15T04:02:33Z")
Hi- Rocky 9.2 (DVD install w/gnome) with XFS, LVM and mutiple LVs. LV “rl-animwork” is mounted to /animwork. The target mount dir shows empty, both with “rl-animwork” mounted and without it mounted: ls -alh /animwork total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Nov 14 19:39 . dr-xr-xr-x. 25 root root 4.0K Nov 8 18:21 … du -hcs /animwork 0 /animwork 0 total but when “rl-animwork” is mounted on /animwork, df reports 2.8GiB used: /dev/mapper/rl-animwork xfs 390G 2.8G 388G 1% /animwork How is this possible? lsof reporting no big deleted files. Other infos: /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/rl-root / xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/rl-animwork /animwork xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=16d9afb6-8bd4-408e-b4a9-5e332f185576 /boot xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/rl-home /home xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/rl-swap none swap defaults 0 0 lvdisplay outoput for the lv:/ — Logical volume — LV Path /dev/rl/animwork LV Name animwork VG Name rl LV UUID QwG5Gj-jbhh-5UlF-4XDO-ges1-DHm4-mFDns8 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2023-10-19 12:50:01 -0700 LV Status available open 1 LV Size 390.08 GiB Current LE 99861 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto currently set to 8192 Block device 253:3 Any ideas? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/2 "2023-11-15T08:39:13Z")
XFS, like any filesystem, does reserve space for its metadata. What does `xfs_info /animwork` show? ---
**Author:** ![lerroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@lerroot](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lerroot)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/3 "2023-11-15T20:56:36Z")
xfs\_info /animwork meta-data=/dev/mapper/rl-animwork isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=25564416 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0 = reflink=1 bigtime=1 inobtcount=1 data = bsize=4096 blocks=102257664, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0, ftype=1 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=49930, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 I am not seeing it. Please advise. ---
**Author:** ![quartsize](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/quartsize/32/3787_2.png) [@quartsize](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/quartsize)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/4 "2023-11-15T22:25:09Z")
[storage - Newly created XFS filesystem shows 78 GB used - Server Fault](https://serverfault.com/questions/983907/newly-created-xfs-filesystem-shows-78-gb-used) ? ---
**Author:** ![lerroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@lerroot](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/lerroot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/5 "2023-11-16T17:38:46Z")
RE: “…depending on which metadata features you enable at mkfs time.” (from the link supplied by quartsize): The lv was created via Rocky 9.2 install DVD image- any mkfs defaults were not altered by me nor do I recall any ability to do so. Does anyone know how to alter this at the installer DVD? Is it possible for me to remove the metadata features now- after “mkfs time”? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![quartsize](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/quartsize/32/3787_2.png) [@quartsize](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/quartsize)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/6 "2024-01-04T22:16:04Z")
I believe the backend supports it, and you can set `mkfsoptions` if you’re Kickstarting, but I don’t remember if that’s exposed in the GUI. A quick peek at a screenshot suggests it is not. The only such filesystem-level change I’ve personally made to existing XFS filesystems is to grow them. Whether any particular metadata option can be changed after filesystem creation seems likely to me to be niche knowledge that you’re gonna have to scour the man-pages or Web for, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/why-does-df-report-3g-used-on-empty-lv-mount-xfs/11858/7 "2024-03-04T22:16:10Z")
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