Re: hda1 problem

["Jaakko Niemi" <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

>> > 1. xdm won't let me log in as anything but root
>> > 2. hda1 partition now shows 0 MB available and 
>> >    100 percent usage.  du shows the same amount
>> >    of space being used in /usr and the copied 
>> >    partition.
>> 
>> Every ext2 partition has some extra space reserved for root.
>> So, if nobody but root can login, that usually meens the partition
>> really _is_ full, except for that little (5% usually, configurable)
>> bit of space reserved for root.

 And if you manage to fill the partition as root ?
 Boot-disk time, out of luck and disk-space :)

	--j



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