From: spj@ukelele.gcr.com (Guru Aleph_Null) Subject: Re: Linux says hd's out of room: IMPOSSIBLE Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 22:46:48 GMT
bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:
>I have a 100 meg hard drive that I totally dedicated to linux yesterday
>but when I paritioned it, I received a message that said I couldn't use
>some 85000 blocks of this partition. I found the message in the FAQ list
>and it said to ignore it.
>Anyway, all I have on there is the SLS a1-a4 disks and maybe another 2 meg
>of stuff I've collected in the last 24 hours. Not even near 100 meg (we're
>talking light years away from 100 meg).
>I was d/ling something to my terminal (because DIP isn't working yet ?!@#)
>and I ran out of space. df /dev/hdb showed:
>Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hdb 109823 109474 0 100%
>After running fdisk /dev/hdb and displaying the partition table I have:
>Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System
>/dev/hdb1 1 1 832 109823+ 83 Linux Extfs
>I think I'm going to compile my own FAQ for newbies from a newbie perspective
>because I have a new problem about every hour :)
I think its a Unix thing where when a filesystem gets filled to almost
full, only root can use more disk space than this limit. Probably to
give root a little bit of room to squeak out whatever you will have to
do to free up some disk space. Its either that, or you lost some
blocks in some accident somewhere sometime. :)
>Tom Bilan
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