The space you've freed up is probably reserved for root and the various process run as root. In order to prevent the system from crashing it will report no free space to normal users when there is clearly some there once a certain threshold is reached. http://www.ducea.com/2008/03/04/ext3-reserved-blocks-percentage/ -Mathew On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Rohan Sheth <rohan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Under what circumstances would I see something like this happen (ext3)? > > [rohan@box1 ~]$ df > > Filesystem Total Used Free > /dev/partition 10000 9990 0 > > [rohan@box1 ~]$ rm <some files on that partition> > > [rohan@box1 ~]$ df > > Filesystem Total Used Free > /dev/partition 10000 9700 0 > > So the number of blocks in use went down, but the number free did not > increase. Why? > > --Rohan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
