Joanne Hunter wrote: > So, in short, I seem to have this problem with free space reporting on my > /usr partition. It's not currently a blocking problem, but it's slightly > disturbing. I don't know if this is a bug in df, or a bug in my filesystem. > Enlightenment (not the WM!) on this matter would be much appreciated, as I > get extremely paranoid when things like this seem to mystically happen. Is > my /usr partition about to explode? Or am I the victim of a vicious bug in > fileutils?
Your partition is probably full up to the point where it's eating into the reserved space. That space does not show up in df. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey>tune2fs -m 50 /dev/hda1 tune2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) Setting reserved blocks percentage to 50 (172650 blocks) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey>df / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.3G 1.1G 0 100% / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey>tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hda1 tune2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) Setting reserved blocks percentage to 0 (0 blocks) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey>df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.3G 1.1G 214M 84% / Reserved blocks are of questionable value for a partition like /usr that only root normally writes to. You might want to turn it off or set it to a lower percentage than the default (5% I think). -- see shy jo
