I remember back in '99 when Richard Gintz wrote:
> Anyone-
> When I do a "df -v" my "/" (root) directory shows 100% full. I deleted a
> number of files and directories from the "/" partition and it STILL shows at
> 100%.
>
> I then did an "fsck /" and it went through its little dittie and when I do a
> "df -v" it STILL shows 100%. What is the deal? Can this be fixed? Does it
> need to be fixed (of course it probably does)?
>
> The df -v line looks like:
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda12 497667 477821 0 100% /
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Linux reserves something like 5% of the disk for root's exclusive use.
the 100% means that no non-root processes will be able to write to
the disk
Matt
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