-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Peter Larsen wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > my /usr partition is almost completely filled up and it's bothering > > me. > > > /dev/hda7 3099260 3090492 0 100% /usr > > There's no "almost" there :) Yes, actually, there is. Note the difference between the size column, and the used column. This filesystem has about 8.5MB free, but with restrictions... Unix systems reserve some percentage of free space on their file systems for the root user, in the event that the file system does fill up. It leaves a margin for root processes to write to their files, or for the system administrator to have some room to play to fix the problem. By default, an ext2/3 filesystem will reserve 5% of its blocks for this purpose. You can, in fact, have filesystems that are reported as greater than 100% full, on some Unix systems, though Linux appears not to be one of them. Assuming the defaults were used, this file system would have reserved 154,963 1K blocks (though the actual block size is probably 4K), or about 151MB. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+EyT2HEnASN++rQIRAq0PAJ4gSU0aOK+7GEZlXRGrVSLatfboigCguNQR 0UmlDbx0vjcckfSzJah8E5A= =9uQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
