Re: "Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."

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

Joanne Hunter wrote:
...
  >Type df to check this. It reports 0 blocks available on /usr.
  >
  >The hell.
  >
  >Remove a few more bits and pieces. That ought to fix it, right?
  >
  >Type df. 0 blocks available.
...
  >This is how I reported it to IRC:
  ><Joanne> /dev/hda7               963911    923505         0 100% /usr <--
  >from earlier.
  ><Joanne> Then I try "apt-get install wmmatrix" (little wm applet) just as a
  >test.
  ><Joanne> Install is successful.
  ><Joanne> /dev/hda7               963911    923613         0 100% /usr
  ><Joanne> Note how the number of used blocks has changed.

The number of blocks available is the number available to an ordinary user.
The filesystem keeps a margin of 5% which only root can use (man mke2fs(8)).
df shows this: you have 963811 total blocks of which 923613 are used, but the
remaining space is 4.18% (less than the margin so 0 available to users).


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