Simon Bryan wrote:
> >I have deleted a number of old gz, tar and rpm files today but still I
> >have no space available, should have freed up close to 70Mb
> >
> >Why the difference? What is the difference? Is it pre-allocated disk space
> >for them?
When ext2 partitions are created, 5% of the space is reserved for root
by default. The Use% parameter shown by df is the percentage of the
space available to users that is used.
You can control the amount of space reserved for root only when you
create the partition, by specifying it as a switch to the mke2fs
command. Unfortunately, none of the distributions that I've ever
installed let you specify the amount of reserved space before creating
the partitions. In the past I've booted first with something like
tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and create the partitions manually
before performing the real installation. These days I install Debian and
it's just a matter of Alt-F2-ing to a prompt to manually mke2fs the
partitions mid-installation.
If you want to fix it, do a backup, re-mke2fs the partition (man mke2fs
will help) and restore the backup.
Matthew
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