> I am running 2.0.32 and am facing a very strange problem
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 289797 282977 0 100% /
[...]
> I get the above result from 'df' which tells me that though
> 8 MB is free... nothing is available.
The kernel (all versions) reserves some portion of the disk space for use
by root. 'man mke2fs' esp. the -m options. This protects you from users
who might use up all available disk space, not allowing the super-user
room to log in and fix things. The reserved blocks ensure you've got
enough space to move things and fix the disk space problem. By default 5%
of the blocks are reserved.
This isn't a terribly good explanation, but hopefully it helps to explain
your 'problem'. You can, of course, set the 'percent reserved' to 0 --
but I don't know if you can do this without reformatting.
--Scott
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