On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:55:28AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> 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
tune2fs is your friend.
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