Yes I was logged in as root. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Lubos Vrbka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File system overhead > If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of the > partition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only > 208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things > added to it, nothing has ever been removed. > > By my calculations there should be 218.8GB left, so if not the rest must be > filesystem overhead. 5 percent seems to be a bit much, but as long as I can > explain it I may be able to live with this. That is why I want a link to a > site that could explain the overhead of the ext3 filesystem. did you execute the df command as root? if not, it might report less free space. there is a reserved space (5% is default for ext2/3, iirc, however you can set it up differently) that is available only for root... and since you report 5% in your case... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
