* [gentoo-user] Disk Space
@ 2009-12-07 6:56 Kaushal Shriyan
2009-12-07 7:00 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Kaushal Shriyan @ 2009-12-07 6:56 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi,
I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box.
whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host
using root user. How does it work. was curious to know.
Thanks,
Kaushal
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Space
2009-12-07 6:56 [gentoo-user] Disk Space Kaushal Shriyan
@ 2009-12-07 7:00 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2009-12-07 7:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Monday 07 December 2009 08:56:36 Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box.
> whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host
> using root user. How does it work. was curious to know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kaushal
>
You have supplied way too little information to give a definitive answer. So
I'll tell you the usual cause:
The ext2 filesystem and it's derivatives reserve 5% of disk space exclusively
for root's use.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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