Re: Full Hard Disk ?

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

stephen@cormac.office.netpresto.co.uk wrote:
  >This caused corruption of the file system. Also, now when I delete
  >files, the free disk space goes up but df reports 0 space available.
  >
  >For example, I now have 704M reported for size, with 659M reported 
  >as used but 0 available.

The filesystem reserves space that can only be written by root; I think
it is around 5%, though that can be changed.

I believe that df does not include this reserved space in the available
space that it reports.

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