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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