Steve Holden wrote: > Jeff Schwab wrote: >> I'm not sure how superuser-only space would be reserved in the first >> place. I don't see anything relevant in the fdisk man page. > > The UFS and ext2 filesystem space allocation routines become very > inefficient when free space gets too low, so for regular uses the > filesystem is considered full before that threshold is reached. You can > adjust the threshold setting (amon others) with tunefs.
Live and learn. I've been using primarily reiserfs for a while now, which may be why my free blocks always == available blocks. > Root uid processes can continue to use disk space after that point so > that various daemon processes don't stop, and so that recovery actions > can be taken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
