On 10/24/07, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rikard Johnels wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 15:48, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > >> Hi, just found a weird behavior on 10.3 (didn't happen on 10.1), when > >> i have little space it directly tells me that there's no space > >> left.... i'm using reiserfs on those fs... > >> > >> mainwks:~/download> df -h /home/ /srv/ftp/ > >> S.ficheros TamaƱo Usado Disp Uso% Montado en > >> /dev/mapper/system-home > >> 32G 32G 130M 100% /home > >> /dev/mapper/system-ftp > >> 15G 15G 236M 99% /srv/ftp > >> > > <snip for trim> > > > > I seem to recall the system reserving a certain amount of space to enable > > root > > to login in case of a filled system. Or was that only on a ext2 filesystem? > > That's on ALL Unix and Linux systems that I've ever used. > Once disk usage goes beyond a threshold (set individually > in each filesystem layout on each partition at filesystem > creation time), only root can write to the filesystem. > > Any filesystem (ext3, xfs, reiserfs, etc) which doesn't have > this capability cannot be a general purpose Unix or Linux > filesystem because it cannot be used on whatever filesystem(s) > (i.e partition) hold, for example, /tmp, /var/log, /var/tmp, > and wherever root's home directory happens to be.
I don't think it is anywhere near that common. UFS (traditional Unix File System) never had that, and I don't think XFS has it today. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]