>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
Adrian> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Egon Willighagen wrote:
>> ...
>> That makes me wonder: is it possible that i am imagening things, and that the
>> upgrade went well, even though my HD was full? Did it actually install files
>> then, or did it not overwrite, because of the HD being full, and my files are
>> basically not upgraded, but just the version numbers in the index that dpkg
>> uses?
Adrian> Do you mean with "my HD was full" that "df" says that it's used 100% ?
Adrian> If yes then your HD isn't physically full, usually 5% of the blocks in a
Adrian> partition are reserved - this means they aren't counted when "df"
Adrian> estimates how many space is free on the device and only root can write to
Adrian> the device if not more than the number of reserved blocks are free. Since
Adrian> you did run dpkg as root you can write additional files to the partition
Adrian> even though the partition is full.
If I understand correctly, this is filesystem implementation
dependant. It is certainly true for ext{2,3}fs. What about the
others, I wonder? This should be looked into, and perhaps documented
in a paragraph of "man mkfs".
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