Dan Carpenter wrote:
I filled up my partition last night. I deleted 5 gigs of movies. The "Used" number went down to 125G. The "Free" number stayed at 0. I rebooted the system but it's still the same. $ echo foo > foo bash: echo: write error: No space left on device $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 136236548 130363620 0 100% /media/old_sys
Check out the -m option to tune2fs, which sets the reserved-blocks-percentage for the FS - the percentage of blocks reserved to the super user, which is 5% by default. Presumably, root has filled the partition completely, and 5G worth of deleted user data is not enough to get under the 5% limit to allow for new data to be written by users. As this partition is used for /home you might as well turn the feature off, as root should not need to have space reserved in that area of the filesystem. tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1 should give regular users access to the reserved blocks. Daniel K. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
