[CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread m . roth
CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also reduced the reserved blocks by 1/3rd. I've just finished an fsck, which

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-06-13, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also reduced the

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread Steven Tardy
On 06/13/2012 12:18 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also reduced the reserved

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/13/2012 12:18 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also reduced the reserved

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 06/13/2012 12:18 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Actually, IIRC, one directory was 42G, and the other was 15G or so. That, along with reducing the reserved blocks on the f/s should have given me 3%-4%. I know that; what's driving me nuts is df, not df -h, is showing available as a

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Actually, IIRC, one directory was 42G, and the other was 15G or so. That, along with reducing the reserved blocks on the f/s should have given me 3%-4%. I know that; what's driving me nuts is df, not df -h, is

Re: [CentOS] space problem

2012-06-13 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 13 June 2012, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: If it was 100% full, and if you freed up 42GB, then it would be: 2006/2048 = 98% full (well, 97.95% to be exact). so it would only show 2% space free max anyway. And by default 5% is reserved for root, so a drive can be 5%