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From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:41:20 +0000
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On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> =A0 =A0On this machine the file system reports it's 100% full even afte=
r
> 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 as=
ide=20
for use only by the superuser. You've gone into that 5%, and 500MB isn't=20
enough to get you out, hence it still appears 100% full.

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Mike Williams

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