Re: disk space blackhole?
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:27:09PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 26/01/02 Adam Majer did speaketh:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > > Umm...little help?
> > >
> > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df .
> > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda4 831200 811831 0 100% /
> > >
> > > This is my router/firewall at home. There's no blocks available, but
> > > there's a total of 831200 with 811831 in use? That's 19369 available, no??
> >
> >
> > There is usually 5% (by default) reserved for root.
>
> That's not a 5% discrepancy though, it's smaller. I didn't change the
> value. How do I query the current setting? I didn't see it with dumpe2fs.
So.... root's been writing into its 5% reserve, and now a non-root
process wants to write and is being refused? If it was bigger it
would be a contradiction of the assertion, but smaller seems consistent.
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