On Monday 07 December 2009 08:56:36 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. > whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host > using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. > > Thanks, > > Kaushal >
You have supplied way too little information to give a definitive answer. So I'll tell you the usual cause: The ext2 filesystem and it's derivatives reserve 5% of disk space exclusively for root's use. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
