From: "Rohan Sheth" <rohan@rs3net.net>
To: Mathew Snyder <mathew.snyder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File system question - free blocks
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:42:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271364124.6731.1370196087@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h2t4f5c8db81004151307v2941dc04yee3f20032eeae4ce@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:07 -0400, "Mathew Snyder"
<mathew.snyder@gmail.com> wrote:
> The space you've freed up is probably reserved for root and the
> various process run as root. In order to prevent the system from
> crashing it will report no free space to normal users when there is
> clearly some there once a certain threshold is reached.
>
> http://www.ducea.com/2008/03/04/ext3-reserved-blocks-percentage/
>
> -Mathew
Yep, that seems to have been the culprit, thanks!
--Rohan
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2010-04-15 19:58 File system question - free blocks Rohan Sheth
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2010-04-15 20:07 ` Rohan Sheth
2010-04-15 20:07 ` Mathew Snyder
2010-04-15 20:42 ` Rohan Sheth [this message]
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