On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:24, Jim Wildman wrote:
> Unix reserves 10% of a filesystem as a safety valve that only root
> can write to. So a 10G filesystem will show full with 9G, users will be
> prevented from writing but root (and root owned processes) will still be
> able to write.
This is why it's best to use the "-m" flag while mkfs'ing your filesystem.
With ext2, the default root reserved is 5%. You can change it to 1% with:
$ mke2fs -m 1 /dev/hda4
You can also change this on a running ext2 filesystem with tune2fs:
$ tune2fs -m 1 /dev/hda4
If the partition is not critical for root system operation (unlike /tmp or
/var), you can set it to 0% and really not worry about the limit.
Enjoy.
- Ian
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