If I am reading all this correctly then the best this will get me is 5%??
Don't mean that to sound ungrateful!
...............and I should unmount the filesystem first?
At 11:01 26/02/2001, CaT wrote:
>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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