On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:07 -0400, "Mathew Snyder" <mathew.snyder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Yep, that seems to have been the culprit, thanks! --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