Deleting files doesn't free space in 100 0.000000ull partition
Damien Elmes
clug at repose.cx
Thu Dec 12 00:10:28 EST 2002
Alex Pollard <alex at trevbus.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently installed RH8.0 and today I found this:
>
> % df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 20153172 13665460 5463972 72% /
> /dev/hda1 23302 14275 7824 65% /boot
> none 127696 0 127696 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda6 18113524 17266548 0 100% /mnt/tmp
>
> (originally /dev/hda6 was /tmp, I've remounted it at /mnt/tmp)
> You can see that /dev/hda6 (which is ext3) has about 1Gb free but is marked as
> full.
These numbers seem to be within 5% of the maximum available size. Are you sure
this space isn't space reserved for only root? By default on ext[23] systems,
there is a percentage of space - something like 2% or 5% - that is reserved for
only root.
I'm not sure if that's what's happening here, but that's a guess. You can use
tune2fs to adjust the percentage of free space to reserve - you could try
setting that at 0% and see how you go.
You could also check the size of the journal "/.journal" was within acceptible
limits.
Cheers,
--
Damien Elmes
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