> Sir,
>
>
> I am running 2.0.32 and am facing a very strange problem
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 289797 282977 0 100% /
> /dev/hda1 8040 5868 2172 73% /drive/c
> /dev/hda5 97536 90960 6576 93% /drive/5
> /dev/hda6 16955 3930 13025 23% /drive/e
> /dev/hda7 109608 105752 3856 96% /drive/f
>
> I get the above result from 'df' which tells me that though
> 8 MB is free... nothing is available. I checked and found out
> that I can increase and decrease Used, by adding and deleting
> files, but Available never changes... also some programs like
> sendmail check only the available and quit. In sendmail I solved
> the problem by asking it to look for space more than -1 bytes.
> however some other proggies are failing becuase of this. Though
> I will get latest kernel installed, I am still trying to think
> what caused this problem. I am using 2.0.32 from the time it
> was released on the net... and this is the first time I am facing
> this problem.
>
>
> Thanking you
> Royans
>
The problem is that you have reserved blocks set, which reserves
blocks for usuage by root only and that free space will *not* show up in
df. Use the tune2fs utility to adjust it, ie
tune2fs -m <reserved blocks percentage> <device>
tune2fs -r <reserved blocks count> <device>
(it should be done when the filesystem is unmounted or at least read-only).
Also, this does clearly not belong on the kernel mailing list, you should
have tried to look at manpages and/or other documentation or maybe posted it
to a newsgroup (not the linux kernel one).
Andreas/Mortiis/Dionysos
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