On 16/02/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>    On this machine the file system reports it's 100% full even after
> I've removed 500MB of stuff. What can I do to clean this up?
>
>
> dragonfly / # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8              9621848   9161608         0 100% /
>

If the filesystem is ext2 or ext3 it's pretty likely that this 500MB
is the 5% reserved for root :-)
So you can't see it, but the space is there. Google around this, as
I'm not sure whether root should see this 5% as available or not.

regards
pshemko

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