On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:23:04AM -0500, Mikes work account wrote:
> When I do a df I get the allocated, used and available space on my data
> drive. The allocated is 9,143,080,, the used is 8,821,132 and the
> available is stated as being 0. It shows as being 100% used and yet we
> are able to continue working and adding records, at least at this point.
> This is something that just happened overnight. We have always had a
> high useage, like in the 93 or 94% range. I can find no rogue files in
> that directory on that drive at all.
>
> Where does df get its information from?
IIRC, unless you tell it otherwise when creating the partiton...
something like 10% or 5% of the filesystem is reserved for the
superuser.
That's why sometimes when you have a full disk, the %-usage is
something like 105% or something unexpected.
> Any thoughts on what happened to my 321948 1k bytes??
>
> Michael C. Rock
> Systems Analyst
> Registered Linux User # 287973
>
> "The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,,"
> "Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
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