Mm, since I was backing up the entire drive, I was the super user at the
time. I hope that did not eat up the 5%!
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, rpjday wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
>
> > I screwed up a long tar command and wound up writing a tarball into my
> > root directory instead of one on a much larger partition, and it filled up
> > that partition, producing a disk full error. I deleted the offending file
> > and rebooted and the system appears to be working fine, no message log
> > errors or anything.
> >
> > My question is this: Can I do damage to the file system by filling up the
> > disk accidentally that way? Obviously if I had really hosed the partition
> > I would know it, but if I rebooted and everything works well, does that
> > mean everything is OK? How can I tell for sure that I have not created a
> > problem that will appear over time?
>
> shouldn't be a problem. i've done the same thing on a number of
> occasions, and i've never ha XB^%#&((& -- FATAL DISK ERROR -- NO CARR
>
>
> besides, as i recall, you can never *really* fill up a filesystem --
> they're designed to reserve a small percentage of space for the
> super-user. see "man mke2fs", the "-m" option.
>
> rday
>
>
>
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