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From: "Rohan Sheth" <rohan@rs3net.net>
Subject: Re: File system question - free blocks
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:42:04 -0700
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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