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From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:41:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602151141.21630.mike@gaima.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0602150323s34875e65m2876d76e6039337@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    On this machine the file system reports it's 100% full even after
> I've removed 500MB of stuff. What can I do to clean this up?

Remove more.

I suspect that's an ext{2,3} filesystem, which has, by default, 5% set aside 
for use only by the superuser. You've gone into that 5%, and 500MB isn't 
enough to get you out, hence it still appears 100% full.

-- 
Mike Williams

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-15 11:23 [gentoo-user] File system full issues Mark Knecht
2006-02-15 11:41 ` Mike Williams [this message]
2006-02-15 12:42   ` Mark Knecht
2006-02-15 13:31     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-02-15 18:09       ` Maarten
2006-02-15 19:08         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-15 22:10           ` Mark Knecht
2006-02-15 23:18     ` [gentoo-user] " Jürgen Pierau
2006-02-16 14:11     ` Frédéric Grosshans
2006-02-16 15:50       ` Mark Knecht
2006-02-16 16:32         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-17 15:19           ` Frédéric Grosshans
2006-02-17 16:07             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-17 16:49               ` Frédéric Grosshans
2006-02-17 17:09                 ` Mark Knecht
2006-02-17 17:15                 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-15 11:46 ` Pshem Kowalczyk
2006-02-15 11:56   ` Alexander Skwar

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