Lubos Vrbka wrote:
If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of thepartition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things added to it, nothing has ever been removed.By my calculations there should be 218.8GB left, so if not the rest must be filesystem overhead. 5 percent seems to be a bit much, but as long as I can explain it I may be able to live with this. That is why I want a link to asite that could explain the overhead of the ext3 filesystem.did you execute the df command as root? if not, it might report less free space. there is a reserved space (5% is default for ext2/3, iirc, however you can set it up differently) that is available only for root... and since you report 5% in your case...regards,
IMPORTANT NOTE: I DON'T RUN DEBIAN!
(My girlfriend runs Debian, so I hang out here to be
able to help support her machine. I run Fedora Core 2.)
I have *less* available as root than as ordinary user...
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 5717832 1527684 79% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm
$ su -
Password:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 5717836 1527680 79% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm
But certainly not anything like 5%. And my numbers also
don't quite add up.
Mike
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