Thanks to all of you who offered advice on my problem. I was able to
use tune2fs to clear up the disparities. IN the future I will us the -m
flag on data drives to create partitions. I still need to move
available space from one partition to another to give me more room in
that particular partition. I do need new drives, but that is on a raid
5 system and would require replacing 4 drives. Too costly for the
moment.
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"
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Ian C.
Blenke
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:38 PM
To: slug@nks.net; Jim Wildman
Subject: Re: [SLUG] I'm 100% on a data drive but its not full ??
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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