Re: Out of disk space at 2 GB?

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On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:23 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of 
> disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows 
> ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather than 
> an nfs-mounted filesystem?

The percentage "reserved for the super user", perhaps?
By default, 5% of ext2/3 disk space are reserved and can only be written
by root. You can change this using the tune2fs utility:

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/whatever

Hth,
Torsten


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