On Sunday 6 January 2002 12:09, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Egon Willighagen wrote: > >... > > That makes me wonder: is it possible that i am imagening things, and that > > the upgrade went well, even though my HD was full? Did it actually > > install files then, or did it not overwrite, because of the HD being > > full, and my files are basically not upgraded, but just the version > > numbers in the index that dpkg uses? > > Do you mean with "my HD was full" that "df" says that it's used 100% ? > If yes then your HD isn't physically full, usually 5% of the blocks in a > partition are reserved - this means they aren't counted when "df" > estimates how many space is free on the device and only root can write to > the device if not more than the number of reserved blocks are free. Since > you did run dpkg as root you can write additional files to the partition > even though the partition is full.
Ah great! Thanx for the info! Egon
