On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Denovo Systems wrote: > Under SCO can recover from a full root filesystem simply by removing > files. Under RedHat we remove files but we don't seem to get the > space back. We still show 100% (see above df) in / > > Why doesn't file removal recover workspace.
Answer: It does, but under linux's filesystems a certain percentage of the filesystem is reserved for root, so things like a full filesystem can be recovered from comfortably. You won't see any change in the percentage used until you remove at least enough files to make up for that reserved space. BTW, 500 meg is far too small for a modern install of Redhat, and my default redhat install does use a single partition. Reinstall and tell it to repartition the harddrive. -- Jess. (Everything with a grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
